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The Rwanda the world doesn't know


An interview with Anjan Sundaram, author of ‘Bad news: Last journalists in a
dictatorship’


  Zahra Moloo


Oct 06, 2016

Journalist Anjan Sundaram’s book on Rwanda exposes a terrifying dictatorship
at the heart of Africa that few people get to hear about. Paul Kagame has
tremendously succeeded – with the eager help of his western backers - to
feed the world a carefully choreographed false narrative. His chilling
tyranny is so pervasive and entrenched that Rwandans police themselves
unbidden.

Zahra Moloo: What took you to Rwanda and what inspired you to write this
book?

Anjan Sundaram: I went to Rwanda in 2009 to write my first book about Congo
and really I was looking for a quiet place. I thought the country was
peaceful, even a little boring, a great place to write a book. I began to
teach local journalists as a way to make some money and also engage with
local society, but very quickly, I learnt that the local journalists I was
working with were living and working in a climate of great repression. One
of them had been beaten into a coma, after bringing up the harassment of the
press in front of President Kagame of Rwanda. Another young woman had been
in prison for many years and physically and psychologically abused, she was
sick with HIV. These stories alerted me to the climate of repression that
largely goes untold about Rwanda.

Zahra Moloo: Can you tell me more about the journalists you worked with in
the program? One of your students, Gibson, started a magazine, and the
stories that they were covering were very innocuous stories, about
malnutrition, things that seem pretty normal on the surface. What was it, or
why is it, so difficult to write about these kinds of issues?

Anjan Sundaram: The Rwandan government is extremely sensitive to any kind of
criticism. It’s almost impossible to practice journalism in a normal way. I
was shocked when I arrived and when I asked my students “Could you question
the national budget?” and they said, “No way. Our lives and physical safety
would be endangered were we to question government decisions, even basic
government decisions.” Gibson was one of my most talented students, one of
the students I became closest to. He was a student of philosophy, a
remarkably intelligent man. What he tried to do was not to address the
problem of malnutrition in Rwanda directly, because that would have been too
dangerous. He began to write articles that inform mothers and parents how
they might feed their children without explicitly saying that there was a
problem of malnutrition.

Officially, hunger had been abolished in Rwanda. Agricultural productivity
had increased several times and there was no problem of hunger. Even today,
a month ago, there was a report of a hundred thousand people being affected
by famine in Rwanda, and this famine is generalized in all of East Africa.
There was a single report and we've heard nothing since. Same thing happened
in 2007: there were reports of famine in South East Rwanda and North East
Burundi. In North East Burundi, aid organizations came in hordes, feeding
people, protecting people, saving people. In Rwanda officially there was no
famine. We don’t know how many people died, whether they were saved or what
was done to help them.

This is the situation in Rwanda. Any news that is seen as criticizing the
government, that could be anything, the government takes very personally and
sees it as criticism of its governance style.  For that reason, journalists
remain silent, huge problems in society go untold and therefore unaddressed.
I write in my book that a society that can’t speak is like a body that can’t
feel pain.

Zahra Moloo: Going through the book, you really get into the lives of some
of your students. Can you give a few examples of what happened to them over
the course of your time teaching?

Anjan Sundaram: Among the twelve journalists I taught, none of them are
practicing today. One of my colleagues was shot dead on the day he
criticized Paul Kagame. Two others fled the country fearing for their lives.
Others abandoned journalism or joined the presidential propaganda team. I’ve
documented in my book over 60 journalists who over the last 20 years have
fled the country, fearing for their lives, disappeared, been imprisoned,
tortured, arrested or killed after criticizing the Rwandan government.
That’s one journalist every four months. This intimidation and repression of
the free press in Rwanda has gone largely untold in Rwanda and in the
international press.

Zahra Moloo: And why do you think that is - why is it that this narrative
persists, that Rwanda is a ‘successful’ country, that it’s very successful
economically, that it knows how to carry out development activities? Why is
there this silence?

Anjan Sundaram: The Rwandan government’s propaganda has been really powerful

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[Mitayo Potosi]

 Few Grade 6 maths teachers have command of their subject - Annette Lovemore
Annette Lovemore
 07 August 2014

 DA MP says that, according to report, 79% of such teachers showed content
knowledge levels below level they were expected to teach

*Mathematics in SA schools: enough talk, time for action*

07 August 2014

The DA has read, with great concern, the latest report on the state of
Mathematics teaching in our primary schools. We now call on the Minister of
Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, to use the best Maths and education
brains in the country to help her develop and implement a truly effective
turnaround strategy to address the shameful state of our maths teaching
(see report
http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/kwazulu-natal/dire-state-of-sa-s-grade-6-maths-teachers-1.1731759#.U-OcpPmSxFMin
*The Mercury*).

Researchers Nic Spaull and Hamsa Vekatakrishnan (from Stellenbosch and Wits
Universities respectively) have used data gathered to produce the Southern
and East African Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ)
2007 report.

The two (highly-respected) researchers have compared the questions asked of
Grade 6 learners and teachers to questions in the South African curriculum,
and have been able to deduce, in purely local terms, the level of knowledge
of the Grade 6 mathematics teachers tested.

Their findings are summarised as follows:

17% of grade 6 students in South Africa were taught by maths teachers who
had content knowledge below a grade 4 or 5 level;

62% of grade 6 students were taught by maths teachers who had a grade 4 or
5 level of content knowledge;

5% of grade 6 students were taught by maths teachers who had a grade 6 or 7
level of content knowledge, and

16% of grade 6 students were taught by maths teachers who had at least a
grade 8 or 9 level of content knowledge.

Thus, an astonishing 79% of grade 6 mathematics teachers showed content
knowledge levels below the level at which they were employed to teach.

The inequity within education is highlighted in the report. Almost half of
the maths teachers in our most affluent schools were able to answer
questions at Grade 8 and 9 level. In our poorer schools, only 10% of Grade
6 teachers could do so.

Spaull and Vekatakrishnan end their report by saying we would argue that
raising student outcomes in mathematics remains a distant pipe dream in
South Africa. We hope they are not accurate in this assessment.

This is the most recent in a plethora of reports on the state of
mathematics and mathematics teaching in our schools.

The Minister has commissioned her own reports; within the last few months
she has received the report of a task team on their investigation into the
teaching of Maths, Science and Technology in South African Schools, and,
just last month, the report of a second ministerial task team on the
quality of the National Senior Certificate.

The reports commissioned by the Minister paint as bleak a picture as does
the research independently undertaken.

The DA has welcomed the report on the National Senior Certificate, but
understands fully that the quality of learning in any subject, and
particularly in Mathematics, cannot be expected to improve at Grade 12
level without the solid foundations required from the first grade of
schooling, and all the way through.

The Minister now owes the nation, and particularly every child taking
Mathematics at any level in our schools, and every parent of those
children, a clear plan of action. She has stated that she has appointed an
internal task team to work on the problem. This is highly unlikely to be
enough.

The DA calls for an open, frank admission of the problem to be made by
Minister Motshekga, followed by a structured utilisation of our many
education experts and master teachers to contribute to the development of
solutions. Monitoring of the implementation of any strategy is likely to be
essential.

The Minister will have to throw energy, money and resources at this
problem. She will likely have to be joined by her counterpart in Higher
Education. Whether universities are producing young Maths teachers fully
capable even of doing the Maths is questionable. Minister Motshekga and her
colleagues have hundreds of thousands of young people, and a country's
economy depending on her.

*Statement issued by Annette Lovemore MP, DA Shadow Minister of Basic
Education, August 7 2014*
Related links
*Articles:*
Quarter of KZN matric maths teachers get F for matric maths - Sizwe Mchunu
http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71654?oid=651878sn=Detailpid=71654
 »
SA's maths and science not the worst in the world - DBE
http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71654?oid=628216sn=Detailpid=71654
 »
SA's maths and science education: worst in the world - Annette Lovemore
http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71654?oid=628064sn=Detailpid=71654
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By Adama Diarra and John Irish

BAMAKO/PARIS (Reuters) - Two French radio journalists were killed by gunmen
in northern Mali on Saturday shortly after being abducted in the town of
Kidal, French and Malian officials said.

The French government confirmed that 58-year old Claude Verlon and Ghislaine
Dupont, 51, both journalists at RFI radio, had been found dead.

The French president ... expresses his indignation over this heinous act,
Francois Hollande's office said in a statement.

Kidal is the birthplace of a Tuareg uprising last year that plunged Mali
into chaos, leading to a coup in the capital Bamako and the occupation of
the northern half of the country by militants linked to al Qaeda.

A French-led military intervention drove out the militants but there are
still pockets of insurgents and the incident dramatically highlighted the
continuing security risks.

France still has about 3,000 soldiers in the country, alongside Malian
troops and U.N. peacekeepers (MINUSMA), although it only has about 200
troops in Kidal and another 100 in Tessalit, several hundred kilometers away
in the northwest.

A local prefect, sources from the Tuareg separatist group MNLA and Malian
security services told Reuters the two reporters had been killed outside the
town after their abduction.

A few minutes after a pursuit began for the abductors of the two French, we
were informed that their bodies were found riddled with bullets outside the
town, said Paul-Marie Sidibe, prefect of the town of Tinzawaten, who is
based in Kidal.

A senior MNLA military official said the bodies had been recovered outside
Kidal and a Malian security source said the journalists were killed about 12
km (8 miles) from the town.

Full details of how the journalists died were not immediately clear,
although the French forces said their bodies were found by a patrol that had
been told of the kidnapping.

At no point did our forces come into visual or physical contact with the
moving vehicle, army spokesman Gilles Jaron told Reuters. The bodies were
found by the French patrol around a 4x4 that had stopped.

He said that two French helicopters had been dispatched from Tessalit to
track the hostage takers, but they arrived in the area 50 minutes after the
bodies were discovered. Earlier, several French media reports said a French
helicopter had tracked the kidnappers's vehicles after the abduction

Jarron said at this stage there was no information as to who was behind the
attack.

Hollande said his cabinet would meet on Sunday to work with the U.N. and
Malian authorities to establish how they had been assassinated.

JOURNALISTS ADVISED NOT TO TRAVEL

France's defense ministry said that the French army had warned the reporters
not to travel to Kidal on October 29 and refused to take them to the town.

They were advised to not travel there due to insecurity that continues to
reign in the area and the rivalry between different groups operating in the
area, the ministry said.

Despite this advice, the two journalists took MINSUMA transportation to get
to Kidal, it said.

The journalists were seized after they interviewed Kidal resident Ambeiry Ag
Rhissa, a local official with the MNLA Tuareg separatist group.

When they left, I heard a strange noise outside. I immediately went out to
see and when I opened my door, a turbaned man pointed a gun at me and told
me go back inside, Rhissa told Reuters by telephone.

I could not see how many men were there, he said.

RFI confirmed in a news bulletin that Dupont and Verlon were kidnapped in
front of Rhissa's house after the interview by gunmen speaking the local
Tuareg dialect.

They were put into a beige four-wheel drive vehicle and the kidnappers
fired shots in the air and told Rhissa to go home, RFI said in the report.

Their driver heard the two reporters protest and resist. It was the last
time they were seen, RFI said.

RFI said in a statement that the journalist were working on stories on
northern Mali for a special broadcast the station was planning from November
7. The broadcast has been cancelled it said.

The kidnapping happened four days after four French hostages kidnapped in
Niger by al Qaeda's north African wing were released following secret talks
with officials from the West African country, ending three years in
captivity.

(Additional reporting by Tiemoko Diallo in Bamako, Laurent Prieur in
Nouakchott, Marion Douet in Paris and David Lewis in Dakar; writing by Bate
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Hallo Robuki,

In both “The Scotched Earth Acholi Campaign” and the ”Black Mamba” storming
of The Supreme Court, and possibly any other crime, Tinyefunza’s first
cover is to invoke “I was following orders”.

It just shows the bankruptcy of our so-called Lawyers, and the Makerere Law
School that keeps churning out this kind of trash.

Tinyefunza has some LLM piece of paper but the dude has never heard that
since the Nuremberg trials, “taking orders” to commit crimes against
humanity, is no defence.

Further more, decisions like the ”Black Mamba” storming are collective
decisions by the NSC.

Indeed what we are witnessing is The EU, and the camp of US, Britain,
Canada, Australia, NZ setting in motion a violent regime change, to install
thoroughly discredited thugs like Tinyefunza.

Imperialism is scared that given a chance Ugandans would convene for a
dialogue and re-vitalize their State Institutions. This, of course, would
cause Britain to starve.

Fellow Ugandans, the EU, US, Britain, Canada, Australia etc…. have already
deployed Tanzania Forces on our borders. They have rounded up Somalis in
Italy to complement the TZ forces. They are training Hutu left and right.

Ugandans also should never forget that ever since the 1990’s
Angola/Zimbabwe/Uganda/Rwanda  war in DRC Angola has been exploring ways of
hitting Uganda; and very hard.

So when m7 cries:  ………”they used me, and now they don’t like me ”…… It is
our country that is in trouble.

The only camp that profits when our country is bombed, and State Power is
stolen are, the Tinyefunzas, their masters and the Mining Companies.

Ask the Libyans. They are being exterminated as we speak.

Mitayo Potosi.

*From:* Robukui . robuku...@gmail.com
*To:* ugandans-at-he...@googlegroups.com
*Sent:* Friday, 19 July 2013, 10:31
*Subject:* Re: {UAH} General Tinyefuza @The chilling story of the flogging
in Acholi

Yoga Adhola of UPC wants to make a deal with Tinye.

Viele GruBe  Robukui

On Jul 18, 2013 9:51 AM, rahimu jabendo rahimujabe...@googlemail.com
wrote:

I will limit myself to my personal experience of Acholi-Tinye. When
Operation North was launched in 1990-1991 under Tinye’s coordination, I had
the misfortune of being caught up in Lira by the blockade or lockdown of
Acholi and Lango. At the time, he was the minister of state for defence and
he oversaw Operation North from his headquarters in the Fifth Division
barracks in Lira. Because Lira isn’t my hometown, I was essentially
stranded. With nowhere to go, for the duration of Operation North, if I
wasn’t in school (Comboni College), I stayed at the home of a UPDF officer
in the aforesaid barracks.

That’s how I got to witness a blood-curdling incident in the barracks that
for me frames the ruthless character of Tinyefuza the commander. It was in
early 1991, if I recall correctly. A contingent of the soldiers from Lira
was deployed to root out the LRA from Kitgum District. Usually in the
barracks you find out that an operation has gone awry when news spreads of
increased activity in the morgue. At this time, everybody in the barracks
was soon aware that the mortuary was full. And because the technology for
preserving dead bodies was primitive, the fact could not be concealed for
long, with that characteristic stench of putrid human flesh. For some
reason, bullet-riddled corpses seem to decompose even more rapidly than
those who die by other means.

The soldiers who survived what turned out to be easily the deadliest LRA
ambush and rout of the UPDF during Operation North were withdrawn from the
front line and trucked back to the barracks in Lira. But if they thought
that they were returning to base for R  R, these soldiers were mistaken.
Tinyefuza had a different treatment waiting for them. Instead of being
received by their families, the soldiers were trucked to the kiwanja or
parade grounds and surrounded by RPs. Tinyefuza had ordered for some of
these RPs to collect a truckload of big canes, the size you would select to
kill a fully grown puff adder. His second order was that the RPs should
cane the battle-crushed soldiers until he gave them another order to stop.
But the most sinister part of the his order was that he specifically wanted
to smell the blood, guts, shit, and death of the hapless soldiers when he
returned to personally supervise their punishment. If he didn’t find any
dead bodies among the wreathing mass of accursed human beings, he would
turn his wrath on the RPs, he reportedly threatened.  Then, he took off for
Kampala ostensibly to report to Yoweri Museveni.

Of course everyone was terrified of Tinye. So, the RPs pummeled their
victims with gusto, afraid of the consequences if Tinye wasn’t satisfied
with their handiwork. As a result, before Tinyefuza had returned from
Kampala, at least three of the detained UPDF troops, including a woman,
were beaten to death. The barracks was filled with their cries. To say it
was horrible would be an understatement. Every soldier I met or spoke

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[Mitayo Potosi]

*Who brought these evil policies to Uganda?  …decimating industries in
Jinja and other places…  privatizing/giving away our basic utilities –
electricity, telephones… railways…National Housing ….Uganda Commercial
Bank…. etc….*

*It is the late attorney, John Kazoora. It is him that prostituted m7 to
Thatcher. *

*It is the late John Kazoora that sold our country.*

**

 *Guess Who Is Not Coming to Margaret Thatcher's Funeral*


*By Lindsey German
*
April 12, 2013 Information Clearing
Househttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
-Stop The 
Warhttp://stopwar.org.uk/index.php/united-kingdom/2379-guess-who-is-not-coming-to-margaret-thatchers-funeral
- Tony Blair has denounced as ‘tasteless’ those celebrating the news of
Margaret Thatcher’s death.

Even if you disagree with someone very strongly, he said, at the moment
of their passing you should show some respect.

Blair's demand that we all show respect for the dead is somewhat hard to
take from the man incriminated in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of
Iraqi and Afghan
civilianshttp://stopwar.org.uk/index.php/iraq/2362-no-more-fuzzy-maths-how-many-really-died-in-the-bush-blair-war-on-iraq.


I don't recall a similar call from Blair over the recent lack of respect
accorded by the British media to the Venezuelan president Hugo
Chavezhttp://stopwar.org.uk/index.php/usa-war-on-terror/2303-hugo-chavez-the-anti-american-bogeyman-fox-news-comes-to-the-bbc,
when he died at a relatively early age after a long period of suffering
cancer.


On the occasion of Margaret Thatcher’s death, calls for respect are
attempts to stifle any criticism about a woman who, it should be
remembered, was only able to hold office due to splits in the Labour
opposition, rather than any enthusiasm for her or her party from a majority
of voters.


And even many of those who voted for her had cause to regret it, as Paul
Routledge points out in the *Mirror*:

She decimated our basic industries of coal and steel. Shipbuilding
virtually disappeared, along with much of heavy engineering.

She tried to destroy our free trade unions through repressive legislation;
She branded miners fighting for their jobs and communities as the enemy
within...

She made mass unemployment respectable, and used it as a tool of
government. The dole queues were a price worth paying under her regime –
once described as an elected dictatorship by one of her own ministers.

She created a new underclass of jobless men... and forced millions of women
back into the workplace so that families could make ends meet.

She sold our basic utilities – gas, water, electricity and telephones – and
prices soared.

She flogged off the buses and railways, and fares went through the roof.

She sold off the council houses and built no new ones, so there are now
more than two million families on housing waiting lists.

She enthroned the profit motive, and unleashed the spivs and speculators in
the City of London.

She surrendered economic policy to the mysterious dark forces of the
market, which led UK plc into one recession after another that led to the
mess where we are today.

She imposed the hated poll tax on the nation, first in Scotland where she
made the Tories unelectable for more than a generation. She then thrust it
down the throats of the English, prompting the worst riots in London since
the disturbances of the early eighties.

Mass popular resistance to the poll tax finally marked her downfall, and
Thatcher was driven out of office by her own party.


This is all supposed to be forgiven and forgotten as a nation unites in
grief for a woman who, in the sickening words of David Cameron, ‘made
Britain great again.’

She played a crucial part in the escalation of the Cold War and in the
reestablishment of a doctrine of intervention which began in the Falklands
and continued with her successors in the 1990s and 2000s.

Respect for the dead was certainly not in Margaret Thatcher's mind in 1982
when she took Britain into war with
Argentinahttp://en.mercopress.com/2013/04/10/argentine-lawmakers-criticize-lady-thatcher-over-the-belgrano-and-for-promoting-economic-neo-liberalismover
the Falkland Islands, to save an isolated British colony -- and her
own political face -- when her popularity ratings were rock bottom.
Rejoice! was Thatcher's response at the end of a squalid and unnecessary
colonial war that cost over 1000 lives, including those killed on the
Argentinian ship the* Belgrano* -- deaths celebrated by Thatcher's
cheerleaders at Rupert Murdoch's* Sun* with the headline, Gotcha.

The 323 young Argentinian sailors, mostly conscripts, who died when the *
Belgrano* sank will not be guests at Margaret Thatcher's funeral.

While Margaret Thatcher destroyed many industries, she always protected the
arms industry, which she enthusiastically promoted abroad. Most
notoriously, was her central role in negotiating the al-Yamamah (Dove of
peace!) arms 

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[Hello!]

The Real Impetus Behind the OPM Massive Thefts
Okadon Akwap, a failed journalist,  is a dubious lecturer in a dubious 
University belonging to one Hassan Hasajjabalaba, one of the scions of the 
Museveni economy who pockected government funds in the billions in dubious 
circumstances. Mr. Akwap came up with a fallacious and specious argument that 
the OPM thieves were somehow mental cases--a consequnece of traumatic 
experiences in the volatile Uganda--and, by deduction, should not be 
responsible for their misdeeds. (Graft: Causes Could Be Beyond Greed). One 
wonders wether Mr. Akwap gained this knowledge from personal experience because 
for those of us who know him know that at one time he borrowed some money and, 
when asked, he instead challenged the creditor to a physical fight--a fact that 
borders on the insane side of the mental spectrum.


On the face of the reportings in the news media, one is stunned by the lack of 
accounting controls in the management of the Peace Recovery and Development 
Plan for Northern Uganda (PRDP) Funds. For example, what in the world would 
make a credible organization deposit huge sums of money in the personal 
accounts of its officials to carry out the organization duties? It is because 
of the understanding of human nature that is why accounting best practices 
require separation of duties and approval processes that may require signing 
off by the top honcho..
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2012
Of God, Guns, Gays, No-New Taxes and Millions of Dough


My friends turned Gothic in spite of their supposed education. Numbers didn't 
mean diddly, let alone the fact that their academic research efforts were 
anchored on numbers--that is, statistics. And so, no matter what one told them 
their candidate was a non-starter and it was better to use someone more likely 
to put up a credible challenge to the Ogre of Uganda, they circled the wagon of 
emotional stupidity.

Fast forward to the US elections of 2012 and the difference would be the same 
with the pitiful Carl Rove , the Republican King-Maker
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[Mitayo Potosi]

Subject: [hq2600] From Cynthia McKinney: Why is President Obama
sending 12, 000 U.S. troops to Libya? Act Now and View Two New Videos

Hello fellow activists for peace,

It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign
media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has
12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their
descent into Libya.

For those of you who have not followed closely the situation in Libya,
the resistance to rule of the National Transitional Council is strong.
 The National Transitional Council (NTC) cast of characters has about
as much support on the ground as did Mahmoud Abbas before the United
Nations request for Palestinian statehood or Afghanistan's
regal-looking but politically impotent Hamid Karzai or for that
matter, George W Bush after eight years.  The NTC not only has to
contend with a vibrant, well-financed, grassroots-supported
resistance, but the various militias of the NTC are now also fighting
each other.  I believe this sociocide of Libyan society, as we
previously witnessed in Iraq and Afghanistan before it, is part of a
carefully crafted plan of destabilization that ultimately serves U.S.
imperial interests and those of a Zionist state and its US agents who
are bent on Greater Israel's suzerainty over huge swaths of
Arabic-speaking populations.  Pakistan is also on the list for
neutering in Muslim and world affairs, saddled with its own unpopular
civilian leadership that finds itself in the hip pocket of the United
States for survival, often getting sat upon by its fiscal guarantor.

The Arab Spring has sprung and the indelible fingerprints of
malignant foreign financed operations must be erased if the people are
to have a chance to truly govern themselves.  Unfortunately, these
foreign-inspired organizations are present and operating in just about
every country in the world.  The threat is ever-present like sleeping
cells--all that is needed is that the right word to activate be
given.  Both Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chavez can write tomes on the
impact of the National Endowment for Democracy in the political life
of their countries.

In other words, those who create the chaos have a plan and in the
midst of chaos, they usually are the ones who will win.  Those who
wrote the plan of this chaos were affiliated with the Project for a
New American Century--read A Clean Break if you already haven't.
General Wesley Clark told us of the plan to invade and destroy the
governments of seven countries in five years: Iraq, Syria Lebanon,
Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran.  These people took control of the
policy in the United States, Clark continues.  He concludes, This
country was taken over by a group of people with a policy coup:
Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and . . . collaborators from the Project
for a New American Century:  they wanted us to destabilize the Middle
East.  Richard Perle, Bill Kristol publicize these plans and could
hardly wait to finish Iraq so they could go into Syria, Clark goes
on.  The root of the problem is the strategy of the United States in
this region.  Why are Americans dying in this region?  That is the
issue, he finishes.

Now, from Libya, reports are that even while the Misrata rebels (NATO
allies responsible for the murder of hundreds of Libyans, including
Moatessem Qaddafi) attempted to scale the petroleum platforms in Brega
(an important oil town in Libya), they were annihilated by the Apache
helicopters of their own NATO allies.  A resistance Libyan
doctor-become-journalist reported yesterday that all of the petroleum
platforms are occupied by NATO and that warships occupy Libya's ports.
 Photographs show Italian encampments in the desert with an
announcement that the French are to follow.  Another news outlet
reports that Qataris and Emiratees are the engineers now at the oil
plants, turning away desperate Libyan workers.  While long lines exist
for Libyan drivers to get their gas, foreign troops ensure the black
gold's export.  Libyans lack enough food and the basics, the country
has been turned upside down, and contaminated with uranium while the
true number of dead and unaccounted for remains high  and unknown.
Thousands of young Libyans, supporters of the Jahamiriya, languish
under torture and assassination in a Misrata prison where a
humanitarian disaster is about to unfold because Misrata rebels want
to kill them all and have already attacked the prison once to do so.
An urgent appeal to contact the International Red Cross was issued
yesterday to help save the lives of the prisoners.  And finally, Black
Libyans continue to be targeted for harassment and murder in Libya by
US/NATO allies on the ground.  Teaching hate, given the images of U.S.
soldiers in Afghanistan released yesterday, urinating on Afghani dead
bodies, is not a difficult thing to do, it would seem.  Videos are
posted of Black Libyans being beaten, whipped, threatened, harassed,
and humiliated.  These videos remind me

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Come home, come to Kigezi.
 
Come home, come to Kigezi.
we shall greet you with a  frothing mug
ofthe sorghum drinkobushera.
and  if that alone will not quell your thirst,
we then shall add you the better brew, muramba.
 
Come home, come to Kigezi.
Come listen to herder boys’ whistles
when at twilight they bring in livestock from the fields.
At night you will sit in circles around kikoome fires
on stools carved from the Ekiko tree
And listen to the enanga player sing,
skillfully plucking the strings of that zither.
 
To hear him sing will cull tears in your eyes
for he knows tales, the enanga player.
he sings of valor, of love, and of death.
He sings of Ruyooka, the hero of the Bahimba
Who, single-handed, defeated an enemy clan
only to die, alas, of an arrow through his heart
shot at him by crippled leper.
He sings, too, of Kabugu ka Mwera,
the maiden who having failed to get a husband
drowned herself and thus ended her grief.
O come home, come to Kigezi!
And tell us; Let us know you are coming.
For then we shall select good  bulls to slaughter
and also compose a song to welcome you.
We shall dance brandishing spears in the air,
stepping hard upon the earthen floors
till the ground will shatter beneath our feet
for our land breeds only strong men.
 
Come home, and come to Kabale.
You will see the sun set beyond the hills
drawing a red stripe across their outline
as if a giant fire smolders behind them in the west—
only those hills, the hills of Kabale,
they require a poet of their own.
They should be praised in full,
their fascination goes for more than a line or two.
They are clothed in much impressive mosaic
of gardens of sorghum and beans,
and stand close together, like siblings!
 
Come visit us, come to Kigezi;
O! and if indeed you come to Kabale,
forget not in your hurry to ask
of the stammering old man Omugurusi Karwemera.
Ask anybody you meet along the road
for none walks in Kabale and yet knows him not.
He is a good orator, the great old man,
He speaks only in idiom and metaphor.
Its from him that you will know
The secrets and history of our land.
 
So do visit home, visit Kigezi
And come not alone, bring the white men too:-
For they too should know
Of the great land that breeds only strong men.
 
By Hillary Kuteisa
Presented by Johnson Mujungu at the ICOB 2011 Convention in London UK July 28-31
Hillary Kuteisa is a 23-year-old student of chemistry at Makerere University, a 
poet, a former troublemaker at Kigezi College Butobere, and a brother of Nkozi. 
Phone +256 773717071; Email sshl...@yahoo.com, ssshl...@gmail.com; Facebook 
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Did Olara Otunnu Desert Acoli and Uganda in Their Hours of Need? 
Only a select few—inclusive, Charles de Gaulle, Ayotollah Khomeni, Apollo 
Milton 
Obote—could go home from exile and become rulers. Why only a few? How did they 
do it? These are the million dollars questions Olara Otunnu and his fanatic 
fans 
are probably chewing on. As if these were not enough headache, Mr. Olara’s 
perennial nemesis has thrown the gaunlet, accusing him of deserting Acoli and 
Uganda, and implicitly saying he brought peace to Acoliland having helped 
create 
the twenty-year hell. Can you belief this guy? Only a sociopath can look you in 
the eye and conjure such an argument.

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  This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on Tuesday February 12 
2008. It was last updated at 13:40 on February 12 2008.


 A sign daubed on the wall of a destroyed house in Nairob's Kibera slum. 
Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

  Kenya's opposition revealed today it had offered to share power with the 
president, Mwai Kibaki, in return for fresh elections in 2010.
  The offer was made at talks aimed at resolving the crisis that followed 
December's disputed poll and which so far has cost 1,000 lives and forced 
around 600,000 people to flee their homes.

William Ruto, a senior figure in the opposition Orange Democratic Movement, 
said the proposals involved forming a broad-based government that lasts for 
two years.
  The offer marks a breakthrough as the opposition had insisted it would only 
discuss sharing power if Kibaki admitted rigging the vote. 
  Ruto said the proposed coalition should reform the constitution and electoral 
commission over the next two years and plan to rebuild areas destroyed in the 
violence. He also suggested a truth and justice commission to look into land 
disputes that have fanned the violence.
  Government negotiator Mutula Kilonzo confirmed the president's party had 
received the proposals and would debate them to see if we can reach an 
agreement. 
  He said the current constitution gives the president the power to appoint 
opposition members to his cabinet.
  Meanwhile, former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, who has been leading the 
mediation, called for new laws to resolve the turmoil.
  It will be critical that a legislative agenda be agreed so that we can move 
forward expeditiously with the important business of reform, said Annan at a 
special parliamentary session.
  You will need to work together to implement this heavy agenda. Your active 
involvement across party lines is necessary. We can't afford to fail.
  Ruto said last week that a power-sharing deal had been struck. 
  Annan branded such an announcement as premature, although he said both 
sides had made significant progress towards a deal.
  It is unclear where the main opposition leader, Raila Odinga, stands on a 
power-sharing compromise.
  Speaking to supporters in western Kenya on Saturday, he said Kibaki must 
step down or there must be a re-election - in this I will not be compromised. 
On Sunday, he said he was prepared for giving and taking.
  Odinga's supporters have applied their own pressure. In the opposition 
leader's western Kenyan base, they have threatened to burn down Odinga's farm 
and a family-owned if he returns as anything less than president.

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Is Destroying Buganda a Policy?


Prime Minister Prof. Apollo Nsibambi
Vice President Prof. Balibasseka Bukenya
Speaker Edward Ssekandi
Prof. Semakula Kiwanuka
Dr. Kibirige Ssebunya
Hajji Moses Kigongo


Allow me to address you, through this forum on issues that are very disturbing 
in regard to Buganda region. I’ve noted with dismay, the rampant misery and 
poverty your government, is inflicting on Buganda and the Baganda people. 

You should understand, the National Resistance Movement/Army revolutionary war 
was a deliberate destructive venture, executed as such in Luwero and for that 
matter in Buganda. The war was conducted to economically and socially 
incapacitate and cripple the war zone, which bye the way is Buganda. Factories 
were destroyed as well as the social infrastructure-the Baganda were left in 
misery and despondence.

I will request you for first hand information, to go to Luwero, Nakaseke, 
Kiboga and make a head count of; both cattle  crop farms, factories, homes and 
other social infrastructure destroyed and of that, how much had been restored 
in the past 20 years!

We the commons, we see you in your black and dark screened limousines, enjoying 
the fruits of your sacrosanct status in wonderment. 

You have turned a blind eye, when destruction of the, moral, social and 
ecological zone referred to as Buganda is taking place – and this being done 
with you the Baganda, comfortably in government, which is most disturbing.

Baganda war Veterans

I see my childhood friends languishing in villages their lives totally 
destroyed and in a mess.

It will take only six months and less than 150 million shillings to train 
Baganda NRM veterans; in masonry, carpentry, motor mechanics, electronics, 
machine design, technical drawing, shoe/clothe making and design, clay making, 
glass making, building construction and so many other trade.

The Baganda Luwero war veterans, out of desperation are becoming a menace and 
being used especially by NRM Resident District Commissioner to committee crimes 
as they did in the 80’s in Luwero!   

The Baganda veterans forcedly, took over Kasana Luwero playground. They had 
nowhere to do business. Really, building a market or setting up a building 
where these people could rent and do some trade will not cost more than 90 
million shillings.
 
In Kampala, these some people, basically and totally illiterate are being used 
to grab land i.e. Wakiliga ground clearly meant for a community playground in 
greater Kampala planning scheme! A land, which is a health threat to their 
lives, the market was never planned but just placed there. 

Attempts by former Lord Mayor Ssebanna Kizito, to inform the veterans about the 
illegality of the market as per the Public Health and The town and Country 
Planning Act attracted violence against the person of the mayor. They tried to 
shoot him as documented on Uganda televisions. 

The government, your government responded with chilling silence.

Recently, the same people have been grabbing land, under high power lines where 
they endanger their own lives and those of the general public. Uganda 
electricity distribution had to turn to violent means to uproot them from 
Nakawa. 

There is another piece of land below Mulago, they have forcedly taken over in 
Kampala, against the protestation of a constitutionary legitimate Urban 
Planning Authority, the Kampala City Council. You and your NRM government are 
very silent above such! Let me ask you, did you really believe that is an 
appropriate place for an unplanned market?

Let me inform you Baganda politicians, such things will never happen in Mbarara 
Town Council for example. Recently Mbarara town council has been clearing and 
cleaning the streets of illegal structures including vehicle parks. 

And for that matter, is the old and new taxi parks in your wisdom termed as 
taxi terminals for human beings?

In Kampala, NRM government will come out to protect criminality, acts of 
violence and directly disorganise organisation, acts that are in direct and 
clearly in contravention of the laws of Uganda. 

On the other hand NRM government will disallow such in Mbarara!

It is flabbergasting that Buganda and Baganda can be taken for fools and you 
high ranking Baganda in government, keep silent against such blatant disrespect 
of the laws, destruction and neglect of your own! 

Why doesn’t NRM government stop the mayor of Mbarara from chasing street 
illegals and illegal construction in Mbarara town but can do the same in 
Kampala? Buganda and the Baganda are being irreparably being destroyed morally 
and physically and you can’t see anything?! 

RDC problem

Why should Kampala in particular have so many RDCs? To whom are these people 
answerable, the parliament, president, to whom? Can you see the problem? In 
Mbarara there was a Musoga RDC who did a lot for that region he was chased away 
by the Banyankore. They never wanted him and how did the executive react?!

The above 

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[Edward Mulindwa]

 A Glance at Airports OperationsTuesday 
June 6, 12:12 pm ET By The Associated 
Press A Glance at the Operations 
of Airports Around the World  Airport operations across 
the globe are split between private companies and governments. A glance at who 
operates some of the world's major airports: --BAA PLC, the world's 
largest airports operator, owns and operates seven airports across Britain 
including London's Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted. In the United States, BAA 
manages the Indianapolis airport and retail operations at Baltimore, Pittsburgh 
and Boston-Logan airports. It also has a stake in and runs airports in Budapest, 
Hungary, and Naples, Italy. --Grupo Ferrovial SA of Spain has a 60 
percent stake in England's Bristol airport and 31 percent of Ireland's Belfast 
City airport. It also manages the Sydney airport in Australia and Antofagasta 
airport in Chile. Ferrovial last year acquired Zurich-based airport handling 
company Swissport, which operates at more than 170 airports in 40 
countries. -- Germany's Fraport AG operates Frankfurt International 
Airport -- Europe's second-busiest airport after Heathrow-- as well as 
the smaller Frankfurt-Hahn, Hanover, and Saarbruecken airports in Germany, 
Peru's Lima Airport and Antalya Airport in Turkey. --The New York 
area's major airports -- LaGuardia, JFK and Newark -- are owned and operated by 
the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a bistate agency that also owns 
the Holland and Lincoln tunnels between the states, the George Washington Bridge 
and the World Trade Center site. --Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta 
International Airport, the world's busiest airport by both number of passengers 
and takeoffs and landings, is owned by the City of Atlanta. The Department of 
Aviation, a city agency, operates and manages it. --Chicago's O'Hare 
International Airport, one of the world's busiest airports, is owned by the city 
of Chicago. The city also owns nearby Midway International Airport. Illinois 
Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed legislation last month letting Chicago lease Midway 
to a private company if officials decide the move wouldmake financial 
sense. --Aeroports de Paris operates the two main Paris airports, 
Charles de Gaulle and Orly, and 12 other facilities within 30 miles of the 
French capital. It also has stakes or management contracts at airports in 
Belgium, Cambodia, Cameroon, China, Egypt, Guinea, Madagascar and Mexico. It is 
fully state-owned, but the French government launched an initial public offering 
last week in which it plans to sell almost one-third of the company's 
capital. --Hochtief AG has stakes in the Athens, Duesseldorf, 
Hamburg and Sydney airports. The company, based in Essen, Germany, also operates 
the Tirana, Albania, airport. --Schiphol Group, majority-owned by 
the Dutch government, owns Schipol Airport in Amsterdam. It also fully owns 
Rotterdam and Lelystad and has stakes in Eindhoven and Brisbane 
airports. --Los Angeles International Airport is owned and operated 
by the city of Los Angeles through an agency called Los Angeles World Airports. 

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 PRESIDENT BUSH:   
I want to welcome the President of Rwanda to the Oval Office again. He was here 
last year, and I'm honored to welcome you back.  The President is -- 
he's a man of action, he can get things done. I'm proud of your leadership. We 
have talked about a lot of issues. We talked about the Sudan, and I want to 
thank the President for committing troops in the AU mission to help deal with 
what I have called a genocide. We strategized about how we can go forward to 
resolve the situation. I thank you for your wisdom, I thank you for your 
concern.  One of the interesting things about President Kagame's 
government is there is more women in his government than anywhere else in 
Africa, which I think speaks to the man's character and understanding about how 
societies remain strong and whole. I appreciate his commitment to education. And 
I want to thank you, Mr. President, for your understanding that the best way for 
an economy to develop is to welcome private capital. He's been working hard with 
companies here in America. Many companies are taking a good look at Rwanda 
because they realize it's a country where they will be treated fairly and there 
is a transparent society and he's had some success, which will help people find 
work. And that's, to me, a sign of leadership. So welcome back.  I, 
finally, want to thank you for your commitment to fighting HIV/AIDS. This 
government has done a really good job of using some of the monies that we 
provided to save lives. And I've always told people that it's one thing for the 
American government -- and the American people, more importantly -- to 
generously write checks to help, but it requires strong leadership at home. And 
you provided that leadership.  So I welcome you back to the Oval 
Office and thank you for your friendship.   PRESIDENT 
KAGAME: Thank you, President. It's a great honor for me to be here, President, 
and I appreciate the discussion we have had on a wide range of issues, starting 
with bilateral discussions we have had about United States government has been 
very helpful in its support of Rwanda in different areas -- dealing with 
HIV/AIDS, to supporting the private sector to invest in our country, to dealing 
with infrastructure programs. And also the support we have had during the period 
we were working under the African Union mission to send our troops to Darfur. 
The United States government, with your support, Mr. President, we have had our 
forces, our troops aided by the United States military to Darfur and continued 
support for the African Union mission.  We are very grateful for 
generally the support in the area will bring peace to the Great Lakes region and 
to supporting the efforts in Sudan and, ultimately, that process of supporting 
my country to be able to develop and continue building on the foundation we have 
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...

  

  

  
  
Do the Mukulas’ 
  have more money than ... 
  
March 5 - 11, 
  2006
  

  The couple ostentatiously chose to show off their home to theworld 
  in African Woman magazine
  I have no idea whether Mike Mukulas’ huge wealth is, or is not, 
  connected to the mismanagement of the Global Fund. But, what I do know is 
  that Mukula, and his wife Gladys, are guilty of the most appalling taste 
  and judgement in how they show off their wealth. Their behaviour helps 
  illustrate the old saying about having “more money than ”
  


  

  “Ostentation” refers to the boastful display of something in a way 
  intended to draw attention and admiration. An “ostentatious” person is 
  fond of self-display.
  Not only is the Mukula residence in Kampala horribly ostentatious, but 
  the couple ostentatiously chose to show off their home to the world in 
  African Woman magazine. If an article ever stank of “look at us everybody, 
  look how rich we are,” then this was it.
  So we learn about the Mukulas’ sauna, steam bath, massage room, gym, 
  swimming pool, bar, large flat plasma TV screen, furniture and tiles 
  imported from Italy and Dubai, and much, much, else.
  And not only that, we are also told “besides their residence, the 
  Mukula’s own {other} properties and houses around Kampala, as well as a 
  house in the United States of America.”
  But let us leave to last the most awful statistic of the Mukula Kampala 
  residence —it has eight showers. In case you thought you had misread, let 
  me repeat—it has eight showers, imported from Italy. 
  The Mukulas could use a different shower, everyday of the week, and 
  still have one left over! And the showers have telephones, in-built 
  radios, lights, mirrors, and massage/steam facilities.
  Compare the Mukulas’ eight showers with the “facilities” in an IDP camp 
  I visited near Lira which had only three boreholes for 22,000 people. An 
  Italian engineer, who specialises in sinking boreholes, told me that in 
  this camp, on average, each person would obtain (for bathing, washing 
  clothes, cooking and drinking) just one litre of water per day. One 
  wonders what Ugandans queuing for jerrycans of water in that IDP camp, 
  would make of life in the Mukula palace?
  In many ways we must thank Mike and Gladys. If they had been a little 
  less ostentatious, there would have been no Africa Woman magazine article 
  and we would have never learnt what was inside the walls of their home. 
  But now it is public knowledge, the Mukula Kampala residence, and 
  especially its showers, will become watchwords for inequality in modern 
  day Uganda.
  In a Third World country like Uganda, inequality gets stretched to its 
  limits. At the rich end, we see individuals with mind-boggling 
  ostentatious spending power that would turn heads even in the richer First 
  World nations. At the poor end, of course, there is widespread, 
  unremitting, grinding poverty.
  Perhaps, before they invest in eight showers, people like the Mukulas 
  should think a little more about those queuing for water in IDP camps. But 
  changed behaviour by the rich is unlikely, for as the Eighteenth Century 
  Scottish economist, Adam Smith, commented in The Wealth of Nations: “With 
  the great part of rich people, the chief employment of riches consists in 
  the parade of riches.”
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 Kenya arrests Ugandan journalist for defaming 
country's leader Police in Kenya are holding 
Mr Hassan Isilow, a Ugandan journalist who writes for Zimbabwe's Sunday 
Times over an alleged defamatory story he wrote against President Mwai 
Kibaki. Isilow is also a freelance journalist for 
Daily Monitor in Uganda. He was held on Friday [31 March] by police in 
Busia on his way to Kenya through Sofia border 
post. The police in Kenya's Busia border district told 
Daily Monitor that the scribe had written a malicious and defamatory 
story against President Kibaki over the siege and closure of the 
Standard newspaper in Kenya at  the beginning of 
March. The police denied journalists access to talk to 
Isilow who was in a General Service Unit Land 
Rover. The suspect is a relative of the Kenyan 
inspector-general of police. Kenyans on 2 March woke up to the shocking 
news of a government attack on the Standard Group, in which KTN was put 
off air, the printing plant disabled and tens of thousands of the 
newspaper's copies burnt. And the country roundly 
condemned the raid on the media group, which  was described as 
assault on press freedom. Source: Daily 
Monitor
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why did the government,the media  tell lies and why was the parlaiment quite 
about it - where is sarah nabakoza


Govt loses 9bn in Nytil-Picfare sale

   By Wamboga-Mugirya

   Minister of Finance (Privatisation), Manzi Tumubweine 
yesterday shocked MPs when he revealed that Uganda is
   to lose US$ 4.9m (over Shs 8.8bn) expected from sale of 
East Africa\'s largest textile factory, NYTIL in Jinja.
   Manzi, who was giving an account of the 7-year old 
privatisation process at a workshop for MPs at Nile Hotel
   Conference Centre, said government will not get the money 
because Picfare Ltd which bought NYTIL, has been
   struck off the registry of companies. 
   \As we talk now, there\'s no NYTIL-Picfare Ltd as lenders 
[of money to Picfare] have sold it off to Southern
   Range of Hong Kong...Government will not get US$4.9m,\ he 
said causing murmurs across the workshop
   chaired by Alleluya Ikote (Woman MP Pallisa). 
   Manzi said government has decided to forego the US$4.9m, 
as a hard option so as to retain over 1,000
   workers and possess NYTIL factory intact.
   He said Picfare has already been sold to Southern Range, 
while Picfare uprooted old NYTIL equipment and
   exported it to Rwanda, where they have another textile 
factory.
   NYTIL was this year placed under receivership of 
PriceWaterhouseCoopers by London-based Commonwealth
   Development Corporation (CDC) following failure to pay US$ 
8.4m (over Shs 14bn). 
   Manzi, however, said CDC has managed to get out US$3.75m 
(over Shs 5bn) from Picfare but lost a balance
   of US$ 4m (over Shs 6.2bn) -- which Picfare has failed to 
pay.
   He revealed that a delegation from Busoga recently asked 
government not to close NYTIL as it would deny
   eastern region huge employment.
   In his report, \Privatisation: Policy, Status and 
Wayforward\ Manzi also revealed that government has bagged
   Shs 220.3bn as net revenue from public enterprises so far 
divested, but has only Shs 68.1bn banked after
   deducting Shs 152.1bn.
   Manzi said todate 103 divestitures are complete, 21 of 
them assets sales; 2 (two) concessions, six
   repossessions, five pre-emptive rights and 37 other share 
sales with a sub-total of 71 divestitures.
   He said there have been 32 liquidations, strike-offs and 
dissolutions, adding up to 103 (total divestitures).
   MPs Beatrice Kiraso, chairperson Finance Parliamentary 
Committee and Paul Etyang (Tororo) strongly
   castigated the way privatisation has been handled leading 
to huge losses in unpaid sales money.
   Businessman Frank Katusiime and Privatisation Unit (PU) 
Director, Michael Opagi defended it, blaming poor
   handling on lack of expertise. 

   November 09, 2000 23:47:13
--

New Vision (Kampala)
April 29, 2002 

ARMY Commander Maj. Gen. James Kazini has revealed that renegade UPDF Lt.  Col. 
Anthony Kyakabale led the March 17, 2001 attack on Kasese town.

He said Maj. Patrick Muhindo’s former aide identified as Kawuda, and other 
people still at large assisted Kyakabale.

Kazini was on Saturday night speaking as chief guest at hotel Margherita  in 
Kasese at a party hosted for him by the Kasese business community.

The party was to congratulate him upon his promotion to the rank of Major  
General and his appointment as the army commander. He was flanked by the  
Second Division commander, Poteli Kivuna.

The business community was led by its chairman, Costa Wambale, who is  also the 
district chairman for the Uganda National Chamber of Commerce  and Industry.

\Your vehicles and other property were not burnt by the ADF but by Kyakabale 
assisted by Maj. Muhindo and facilitated by foreign forces,\ Kazini said.

He said a nine-year-old pupil called Kagaba from Mother Care Primary school, 
who was abducted during the attack, had been seen in a neighbouring country 
which he did not name.

Kyakabale, who is under the custody of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in 
Kigali, Rwanda, is on record for having declared war on Uganda.

He is also linked to Col. Kizza Besigye\'s Reform Agenda, a loose political 
organisation calling for change in the Movement government.

Kazini said ADF terrorists who had been trained in Pakistan, burnt Uganda 
Technical College Kichwamba in 1998. Over 80 students were killed and others 
abducted.

He said the terrorists were trained by the al- Qlaeda group of suspected terror 
mastermind, Osama Bin Laden.

Kazini was quoting the former ADF chief of records, Haji Sadat Kinobe, who 
surrendered to the UPDF 

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[Okuto del Coli]

  
One horizon that is paradox-free and therefore generally not receptor of Speculation Emitters is the UPC’s total eruption. That eclipse is self-explanatory. One needed not be drunk to anticipate the impact of deviation from “OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE and FOR THE PEOPLE”. 

Once more for the ten time (again, more over!!) our apprehension proves superiority over peripheral gapers. 

Indeed, the UPC’s dilemma / disarray is well exhibited in the acts of it’s “Obal-UPC” (Confusing Agents). 

Instead of sitting down and critically analysing the quake and it’s impact, some are here hollering like nothing wrong has happened: like the people of Uganda have not rejected the party’s policy. Hopefully, some of those former PPC’s and UPC branch offices (like UPC Stockholm), now know we were very sober in our predicament. We were presenting situations as they were without distortion, mystification or malicious manipulation: The superiority of not being prejudiced. 

Election rigged or not, the UPC’s catastrophe is clear!

My great grand father always did say: ”Politics is always and at all times ambivalent”. Where upon my great grand mothers countered: “All is relative”.

These days of inflation of speculations (triggered by the avalanche like catastrophe election results) those phenomena are more concrete than ever.

The disaster political scenario in Acoli (probably in most parts of Northern and Eastern Uganda) epitomizes the apprehension.

Once again, we are bound for a very fragile mandate period with very loose constellations. AND, the situation is not exactly new!

Most of the MPs retained their seats (this time around on the FDC platform!!!) while Presidential appointees lost. 

A deduction from the above is that the Acoli VOTED FOR “NO CHANGE”. The irony seems paradoxical, is it not? Ponder deeper!

The fact that the same MPs retained their seats even on another party’s ticket and without account of the past harvests is vindictive enough. 

Question is: 

What makes a people sink into such dept of “reality irresponsiveness”? What make a people sink to such dept of self-denial? 

Spontaneously, I can parade a few hypotheses:
1) Lack of participation / engagement (rd. no participation): poor communication or presentation of real issues facilitated by lack of freedom and liberty.
2) Intimidation ( mostly threats from the LRA)
3) Legacy of once a Champ always the Champ ( Acoli did not vote on basis of personal political conviction). Perhaps it is to the candidate’s advantage that key political issues are pushed aside. 

Hon. Reagan Okumo is first out with urgent request for reconciliation. A very good gesture but, if he does hint on any structure for the reconciliation, it is very primitive and not sustainable (almost as primitive as Mato Ofut). The suggestion is good but technicality is a little obnoxious as some of the “heat of election” cliché´ against runner-ups persists. 

The world has technically shrunk with universal standards / definitions /perquisites to ensure Global cooperation. From that perspective, too simplistic “home-made” variety of conflict resolution appears not only excommunicated but also too populist.

It is normal that political opponents invite each other to dinners or festivities. However, Hon Okumu seems to be suggesting reconciliation “ritual” of a different sort under the conductorship of certain Acoli institution. I do not think that is utterly correct.

Firstly, it consolidates a conflict situation of a different sort. 

It is normal that during the heat of election campaign, politicians pull all sorts of psychological warfare magazines. It is politics. It is political checkmate. IT IS NOT “BAD-BLOOD” CONFLICT. But approached wrongly, those situations risk conflict label. Our politicians have to get use to playing according to the rules of the game without resorting to baby-sitting by the public!!

Hon. Reagan Okumo pledges the same convergence his political adversaries cried for but were denied. 

A question that might pre-occupy the minds of certain actors is: 

Why suddenly seek the same convergence, which for decades have been sabotaged? 

This scenario may not surface. Still, there may be need to be sober. In Africa, it is common that certain categories act for the general good only if they themselves are the wielders. The so-called “Looser” politicians can question why they should converge behind the new concept when they never got desired backing during their mandate? 

This reciprocity explains the conflict management concept I described above as technically primitive and not sustainable (considering the dept of the conflict and political stake). Astounding ruthlessness further aggravates the hazardous situation.

The LRAs rally behind FDC candidates is strenuous. This is particularly so in cases where the candidates do not openly distance themselves from the LRA: They can no longer play non- partial.

Yes indeed, we have a situation this coming mandate period. But, as 

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[Matek Opoko]

Members list you forget it is Friday, and that means Del Coli just recieved his wellfare check from the Swiss Government. Twon choo dong Oyang!! My friend leave the UPC out of your Stupidity!!!.. The NRM has "won" the elections.or is it "ERECTION"...now you continue ruling..until things fall apart the center cannot hold!!!!  MKOkuto del Coli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:One horizon that is paradox-free and therefore generally not receptor of Speculation Emitters is the UPC’s total eruption. That
  eclipse
 is self-explanatory. One needed not be drunk to anticipate the impact of deviation from “OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE and FOR THE PEOPLE”. Once more for the ten time (again, more over!!) our apprehension proves superiority over peripheral gapers. Indeed, the UPC’s dilemma / disarray is well exhibited in the acts of it’s “Obal-UPC” (Confusing Agents). Instead of sitting down and critically analysing the quake and it’s impact, some are here hollering like nothing wrong has happened: like the people of Uganda have not rejected the party’s policy. Hopefully, some of those former PPC’s and UPC branch offices (like UPC Stockholm), now know we were very sober in our predicament. We were presenting situations as they were without distortion, mystification or malicious manipulation: The superiority of not being prejudiced. Election rigged or not, the UPC’s catastrophe is
 clear!My great grand father always did say: ”Politics is always and at all times ambivalent”. Where upon my great grand mothers countered: “All is relative”.These days of inflation of speculations (triggered by the avalanche like catastrophe election results) those phenomena are more concrete than ever.The disaster political scenario in Acoli (probably in most parts of Northern and Eastern Uganda) epitomizes the apprehension.Once again, we are bound for a very fragile mandate period with very loose constellations. AND, the situation is not exactly new!Most of the MPs retained their seats (this time around on the FDC platform!!!) while Presidential appointees lost. A deduction from the above is that the Acoli VOTED FOR “NO CHANGE”. The irony seems paradoxical, is it not? Ponder deeper!The fact that the same MPs retained their seats even on another party’s ticket and without account of the past harvests is vindictive enough. Question is: What makes a people sink into such dept of “reality irresponsiveness”? What make a people sink to such dept of self-denial? Spontaneously, I can parade a few hypotheses:  1) Lack of participation / engagement (rd. no participation): poor communication or presentation of real issues facilitated by lack of freedom and liberty.  2) Intimidation ( mostly threats from the LRA)  3) Legacy of once a Champ always the Champ ( Acoli did not vote on basis of personal political conviction). Perhaps it is to the candidate’s advantage that key political issues are pushed aside. Hon. Reagan Okumo is first out with urgent request for reconciliation. A very good gesture but, if he does hint on any structure for the reconciliation, it is very primitive and not sustainable (almost as primitive as Mato Ofut). The suggestion is good but technicality is a little obnoxious as some of the “heat of election” cliché´ against runner-ups persists. The world has technically shrunk with universal standards / definitions /perquisites to ensure Global cooperation. From that perspective, too simplistic “home-made” variety of conflict resolution appears not only excommunicated but also too populist.It is normal that political opponents invite each other to dinners or festivities. However, Hon Okumu seems to be suggesting reconciliation “ritual” of a different sort under the conductorship of certain Acoli institution. I do not think that is utterly correct.Firstly, it consolidates a conflict situation of a different sort. It is normal that duri
 ng the
 heat of election campaign, politicians pull all sorts of psychological warfare magazines. It is politics. It is political checkmate. IT IS NOT “BAD-BLOOD” CONFLICT. But approached wrongly, those situations risk conflict label. Our politicians have to get use to playing according to the rules of the game without resorting to baby-sitting by the public!!Hon. Reagan Okumo pledges the same convergence his political adversaries cried for but were denied. A question that migh
 t
 pre-occupy the minds of certain actors is: Why suddenly seek the same convergence, which for decades have been sabotaged? This scenario may not surface. Still, there may be need to be sober. In Africa, it is common that certain categories act for the general good only if they themselves are the wielders. The so-called “Looser” politicians can question why they should converge behind the new c
 oncept
 when they never got desired backing during their mandate? This reciprocity explains the conflict management concept I 

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Land, gender and stalled DRB: An opportunity to get it right? 

KALUNDI SERUMAGA 


Africa and her poverty have become the subject of a global debate. Our wounds and our failures are being beamed all over the globe in the expectation that the citizens of the G8 world will do enough campaigning to encourage their governments to find a way of getting us out of the mess in which we have been wallowing for the last four decades (or possibly 500 years, if you take the really long view).
One of the strong messages coming out of the aid-to-Africa debate is that we are expected to start doing things very differently from the way it is perceived we have been doing them in the past. 
Relations between men and women will have to change and move towards gender equality; stealing of public money will have to be curbed; there should be more open and more regular elections, etc, we all know the list. These are the necessary steps we are told to take to be able to move towards more sustainable development and a complete break with the culture of poverty.
However, the English say that "necessity is the mother of invention", and the best evidence of their belief in that saying can be found in what they and their colleagues in the G8 club have done here in Africa. Not just now, but in the past that is still with us.The last two decades of the century before last found British society (as well as the rest of Europe's), very poor, sharply divided, crisis-ridden and constantly on the brink of revolt and revolution.






POVERTY WAR: Leaders, taking part in the G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, listen to British Prime Minister Tony Blair (C) on Thursday. AFP photos
This was a direct result of their self-created industrial revolution that swept through Europe from the 1840s onwards, moving millions of people from an agricultural way of life into the mines, shipyards and factories, turning them into "wage-slaves", and destroying the remnants of village and community life that had managed to survive their feudal systems. The ordinary people reacted increasingly violently to this oppression and exploitation.
The Irish writer Oscar Wilde observed that England was simply "the first and the most deeply penetrated of all the British colonies". 
As a way out of these problems, the Europeans found it necessary to find new territories to settle their growing populations and to create new markets for their goods as well as ever-cheaper labour to exploit. Cecil Rhodes, the British inventor of Rhodesia (now Zambia and Zimbabwe), explained it most clearly: "I was in the east end of London yesterday and attended a meeting of the unemployed. 
I listened to the wild speeches, which were just a cry for "bread, bread, bread", and on my way home pondered over the scene and I became more than ever convinced of the importance of imperialism. My cherished idea is a solution for the social problem, i.e. in order to save the 40m or so inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets for the goods produced by them in the factories and mines. The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread-and-butter question. If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialists."
This strategy enabled them to begin providing somewhat higher standards of living for their own people and even buy off a section of them, thus diminishing the threat of rebellion.





BASICALLY AGRARAIN: A Kenyan farmer plucks ripe coffee berries. 



Nigerois boys walk by grazing cattle on their way to help parents working in a field.
It was a strategy of survival, where the capitalist counties turned themselves into imperialist, empire-owning countries – the beginning of globalisation – and has so far worked quite well for them, providing a new lease of life on which they as the G8 are surviving up to today.
Poverty questionThis is where Uganda, and other places like it, comes in.
"Uganda" was invented in the 1880s as a necessary part of the solution to those British problems mentioned earlier, and politically imposed on our recent ancestors in 1894. From that day onwards, Uganda has been little more than a vast income-generating project for the powerful interests that drive the economies of the countries now known as the G8.
Today, Uganda ranks as one of the countries with the poorest populations in the world. It is this poverty that the G8 countries say that they are committed to resolving, all by 2015.
Our governments of the last decades have been supported and encouraged in carrying out policies that would, say the globally wise, make it easier to attract help, solve inequalities and create wealth. 
In its current form, the Domestic Relations Bill (DRB), which incidentally predates the G8 initiative by a few decades – is a piece of proposed legislation that would address one of the concerns: gender ine

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[LilQT4851]

  Poverty 
  Debt 

  Aid 

  Trade 
  

  
  



  

  
  Poverty
  Africa is a key theme of this year's G8 summit. This is an overview 
  of some of the economic challenges facing the continent. 
  Most of Sub-Saharan Africa is in the World Bank's lowest income 
  category of less than $765 Gross National Income (GNI) per person per 
  year. Ethiopia and Burundi are the worst off with just $90 GNI per person. 

  Even middle income countries like Gabon and Botswana have sizeable 
  sections of the population living in poverty. 
  North Africa generally fares better than Sub-Saharan Africa. Here, the 
  economies are more stable, trade and tourism are relatively high and Aids 
  is less prevalent. 
  Development campaigners are urging the G8 to reform the rules on debt, 
  aid and trade to help lift more African nations out of poverty
  
  
Poverty 

Debt 
Aid 

Trade 

  
  


  
  
  

  

Debt
The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative (HIPC) was set up 
in 1996 to reduce the debt of the poorest countries. 
Poor countries are eligible for the scheme if they face 
unsustainable debt that cannot be reduced by traditional methods. 
They also have to agree to follow certain policies of good 
governance as defined by the World Bank and the IMF. 
Once these are established the country is at "decision point" and 
the amount of debt relief is established. 
Critics of the scheme say the parameters are too strict and more 
countries should be eligible for HIPC debt relief. 
This map shows how much "decision point" HIPC countries spend on 
repaying debts and interest. 
Fourteen African HIPC countries will have their debts totally 
written off under a new plan drawn up by the G8 finance 
ministers.


  Poverty 

  Debt 

  Aid 
  Trade 
  


  
  



  

  
  Aid
  Africa receives about a third of the total aid given by 
  governments around the world, according to the Organisation 
  for Economic Co-operation and Development. 
  Much of this has conditions attached, 
  meaning governments must implement certain policies to receive 
  the aid or must spend the money on goods and services from the 
  donor country. 
  The World Bank, which is reviewing its 
  conditionality policies, argues that aid is far more 
  effective, and less vulnerable to corruption, when coupled 
  with improved governance. 
  There was a sharp drop in rich countries' relative spending 
  on aid in the late 1990s. 
  The Make Poverty History campaign is urging the G8 to raise 
  an extra $50bn more in aid per year and to enforce earlier 
  pledges for developed countries to give 0.7% of their annual 
  GDP in aid. 
  
  
  
Poverty 

Debt 

Aid 

Trade 
  
  


  
  
  

  

Trade
Africa is rich in natural 
resources such as minerals, timber and oil, but trade 
with the rest of the world is often difficult. 
Factors include poor 
infrastructure, government instability, corruption and 
the impact of Aids on the population of working age. 

Poorer countries and agencies 
such as Oxfam also argue that international trade rules 
are unfair and favour the developed world. 
They say rich countries "dump" 
subsidised products on developing nations by 
undercutting local producers. 
And they accuse the World Trade 
Organisation (WTO) of forcing developing nations to open 
their markets to the rest of the World but failing to 
  

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[LilQT4851]

  
  

  
  Speak out, African leaders told 
  

  


  
 
Kofi Annan said one or two countries can affect a 
whole 
  regionAfrican 
  leaders should speak out against their neighbours if "wrong policies" are 
  followed, United Nations chief Kofi Annan has warned. 
  Mr Annan told the Financial Times they must not 
  keep quiet if they want to be credible in the eyes of the world. 
  He did not name Zimbabwe in the interview, but his envoy is visiting 
  the country to assess the demolition of shanty towns making 200,000 
  homeless. 
  The West wants African leaders to censure President Robert Mugabe. 
  The African Union has said the demolitions were an internal matter for 
  Zimbabwe. 
  "What is important - and what is lacking on the 
  continent - is a willingness to comment on wrong policies in a 
  neighbouring country," Mr Annan said. 
  Eight African leaders are heading to a meeting of the world's most 
  powerful countries, the G8, at Gleneagles in Scotland, where announcements 
  on aid and debt relief are expected on Friday. 
  'Breath of fresh air' 
  Mr Annan said that internal problems in one country 
  can easily spread to become a regional one. 
  "Nobody invests in a bad neighbourhood and if you 
  have just one or two countries behaving that way, that hurts 
  everybody." 
  
  


  
 
Zimbabwe's government has destroyed 'illegal' housing 
in recent weeksOn 
  Wednesday, Zimbabwean Archbishop Pius Ncube called on G8 leaders to link 
  African action on President Mugabe to more debt relief and aid. 
  "The international community has done little to prevent Mugabe's 
  excesses and it is time to act," the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo 
  said. 
  Zimbabwe Health Minister David Parirenyatwa told state-run television 
  that the demolitions were a "breath of fresh air", allowing his officials 
  to improve public health. 
  He said overcrowding had led to a huge increase in tuberculosis cases, 
  while sewerage facilities had been unable to cope with the influx of 
  people to cities such as Harare. 
  The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR), 
  meanwhile, warned that the evictions could worsen the Aids crisis as 
  people infected by HIV are forced to leave their homes and so may abandon 
  their treatment. 
  Meanwhile, a senior UK judge has urged the government to halt all 
  removals of failed asylum seekers to Zimbabwe pending a further High Court 
  hearing. 
  
  


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[Ugnet] [abujaNig] Re: [Mwananchi] Subject: Re: OUR CONDOLENCES TO THE IRAQI

[Edward Mulindwa]

Justice M. Mbuh
Be very proud for you have changed the lives of the 
Iraqis to the best, now that funeral homes are the best investment in the 
nation.

You see this is where I am different with you, for 
you adore the collapse of the Soviet Union, personally I look on how the 
population lived before the break down of The Soviet Union and today. But hey 
the Chechens are not people. Democracy is good for it kills and justifies the 
murders.

It is very sad for you have the idiots like my self 
who think so low, for we think that a nation developed as United States should 
be able to over throw a government with out firing a single bullet, but this is 
the danger of a developed nation with a very poor foreign policy.

Tell me one nation that murdered more people than 
the democratic nations. One day I will get the definition of democratic 
nation.

Em
Toronto

The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is 
in 
anarchy" 
Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans 
l'anarchie"

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  JusticeMbuh 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  ; naijapolitics@yahoogroups.com 
  ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 9:14 
  AM
  Subject: [Mwananchi] Subject: Re: OUR 
  CONDOLENCES TO THE IRAQI
  
  Edward,
  I have been an admirer of your dedication to expose America for waht you 
  see. But do not forget, it only ends for what you see and how you interprete 
  things. Least we forget, you have stood for the likes of Biya in Cameroun, 
  Mugabe in Old Zim more than you have for truth and even care of the oppressed. 
  How you interprete what you see is left to you, but when you take it to 
  public, it becomes a public matter and begs for a response.
  
  Are you attempting to say the recent killings in Iraq are triggered by 
  Americans and British presence? Have you asked yourself why these very 
  insurgence never organized similar attacks against Saddam who by every means, 
  even after the Irag-Iran war killed many more thousands and burried them in 
  mass graves that the casualties of the recent Iraq showing?
  
  Frankly, and left to me, we would have wagged a global war against all 
  dictators, since terror does not seem to sink well with your mind.
  
  At best, you are a distraction/detraction that allows Hitlerites like 
  Mugabe and Biya to get away with their crimes against humanity in Africa--for 
  simply taking our readers off topic, all the time; at worst, you are a 
  hypocrite for living in the western world and condemning them! Last I asked 
  you to go back to Africa and perhaps produce a woody/wooden bicycle factory, a 
  wooden computer factory and so on and so forth and let those who kiss the 
  behinds of the Western world like us just be! Until you do that, I am caught 
  tongue tight in bewilderment as to whether Toronto is in our Ambazonia, 
  Eritrea, Mozambique,Zim and Azania or in the Western world that you 
  condemn with ferocity!By these same western worlds intelligence service 
  tolerating folks like you, whom under Biya or Mugabe you would have been 
  roasted to feed voodoo High Priests, you ought to be grateful to the West for 
  even letting you and your sorry behind live in their domain--for if that was 
  in Africa, you'd be gone by now!
  
  Bottomline: Give Credit where and when it is due, my friend!
  Justice M. Mbuh
  
  
  Message: 16  
  Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 15:50:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Kangyang 
  Chollom [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: OUR 
  CONDOLENCES TO THE IRAQI POPULATIONEdward, Thought you 
  would have started with dear old Africa. Sudan is not yet over, why cross 
  over the Red Sea to Iraq? Charity, I think they say, begins at 
  home. Kangyang.Edward Mulindwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:NettersDue to the 
  murders that the British and Americans are doing in Iraq this week end, we 
  are going to take a step out of our normal bounds today, and focus on 
  the murders of old men women children and innocent in Iraq that has 
  happened since last Wednesday. Iraq is third world country and the so 
  called developed nations, namely Americans and the British, have such 
  a life style that can only be maintained by resources that are neither in 
  UK or in The States. This very same fracas has cost us a whole 
  millions of our people in Africa for the again developed nations want our 
  resources. The very same resources they are looking for in Zimbabwe. 
  It has funneled the wars in Congo, Uganda, Angola, Central African 
  republic on and on.As the British and Americans mine and pull 
  minerals out of a dying population, as their citizens enjoy the life 
  styles funded out of money with blood. Let us all remember the families of 
  the people in Iraq who have died so massively from Wednesday to 
  tonight. We can not help you, for we are as word less

[Ugnet] Re: [abujaNig] Subject OUR CONDOLENCES TO THE IRAQI --Mind your own business too

[Edward Mulindwa]

And can you kindly tell me the president of Somalia 
today?

Well let us talk on Africa issues and forget Iraq 
until when Nigeria will face the same tragedy of Somalia, a nation with out a 
government for now 10 plus years. Many of you forget that we are all facing a 
single enemy. And that is why he is surviving, for we close our eyes when he 
kills the neighbor's Dog, wait when he comes to your home he will kill the kid 
you love the most.

Africans really need help, for I wonder why we even 
worry about our nations when our marriages are un stable? 

Good thinking indeed.

Em
Toronto

The Mulindwas Communication Group"With 
Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in 
anarchy" 
Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans 
l'anarchie"

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Tracy 
  Okorie 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 10:12 
  AM
  Subject: Re: [abujaNig] Subject OUR 
  CONDOLENCES TO THE IRAQI --Mind your own business too
  
  
  

Dear Mr Edward


As this is a forum, I respect the fact that you 
are able to share your opinion in here, as I am about to share mine too 
concerning the issues in Iraq, so here goes.

First of all, I don't think we as Nigerians 
have any say in what is going on in Iraq at the moment, when our own house 
in in confusion and disarray. To cross over all the suffering in Africa and 
decide to butt into the Iraqi peoples business is not what we should concern 
ourselves with at the moment. Let the issue people issue there complains and 
stuff while those of us who have our own burning houses deal with 
ours.

Secondly, if you have not noticed lately, the 
Iraqi people are being killed by their own inside people (the insurggents). 
The war has long been over but civilians in that country are being killed in 
the hundreds still. The people conducting theses killings are not even 
soldiers of the US or Britain, but angry men who walk around faceless. The 
Country now has a government put in place but these barbarians will not let 
peace reign, so why do you point accusing fingers and claim something you do 
not even have a clue about?


No offense Meant 

Just sharing my own opinion



  Edward Mulindwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:NettersDue to 
  the murders that the British and Americans are doing in Iraq this week 
  end, we are going to take a step out of our normal bounds today, and 
  focus on the murders of old men women children and innocent in 
  Iraq that has happened since last Wednesday. Iraq is third world 
  country and the so called developed nations, namely Americans and the 
  British, have such a life style that can only be maintained by 
  resources that are neither in UK or in The States. This very same 
  fracas has cost us a whole millions of our people in Africa for the 
  again developed nations want our resources. The very same 
  resources they are looking for in Zimbabwe. It has funneled the wars 
  in Congo, Uganda, Angola, Central African republic on and 
  on.As the British and Americans mine and pull minerals out of 
  a dying population, as their citizens enjoy the life styles funded out 
  of money with blood. Let us all remember the families of the 
  people in Iraq who have died so massively from Wednesday to 
  tonight. We can not help you, for we are as word less as you are, but 
  may the Lord who does not work for pay give your departed a resting 
  peace. Hope one day we will have a world where The British and 
  Americans can not kill so many innocent people for looting the 
  minerals and oil to support a life 
  style.EmToronto The Mulindwas 
  Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in 
  anarchy" 
  Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est 
  dans l'anarchie"
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Legacy of Ambazonia 
  (UN Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons) 
  
  The Parliamentary 
  Opposition, ...forged for itself a new role noteworthy for its dignity; 
  and the government,..never attempted to withdraw...the legal recognition 
  that was its due. Thanks to this...West Cameroon has won for itself the 
  prestige of being the one place in West Africa (if not all of Africa) 
  where democracy, in the British style, has lasted longest in its genuine 
  form.-Professor Bernard Nsukika Fonlon in The Task of 
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Dear Friends living in Britain,
Please fill us in about reports that the absentee/postal ballots will be used by Labour to massively rig the elections. And that Foreign Secretary Michael Shortis bound to lose his parliamentary seat unless he is rigged in.
At least that is what we read in some papers.
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Stop arrests, intimidation  
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Editorial |   March 21, 2005



Stop arrests, intimidation

In the space of only four days, security personnel have arrested two Forum 
for Democratic Change (FDC) supporters ostensibly in connection with the 
opposition party’s t-shirts.

We condemn these actions because they undermine the spirit of opening up the 
political space. Last Wednesday, Internal Security Organisation operatives 
arrested an FDC coordinator in Rukunguri over wearing a party t-shirt. The 
arresting authorities said it was a rebel uniform.
By the weekend the whereabouts of Mr Christopher Turyahikayo were still 
unknown.

It is a national tragedy when a citizen is arrested over wearing a t-shirt 
of a duly registered political party.
Then on Saturday, security personnel arrested an FDC supporter who prints 
the party’s t-shirts in Bunga, Kampala. Ms Peggy Ntegyereize, who was 
accused of being a rebel collaborator, was released after recording a 
statement with the Criminal Investigations Department.

She said she was being intimidated because she deals with the FDC’s exiled 
leader, Col. Kiiza Besigye. Earlier, FDC promoters were turned away from 
celebrations to mark the International Women’s Day on account of their 
attire. Police told the FDC women who were wearing party t-shirts and 
carrying a party flag that their dress was inappropriate and was likely to 
cause a “breach of the peace.”

Yet, hundreds who were dressed in yellow t-shirts and dry banana leaves, the 
party colour of the NRM and symbol of the government’s no-term limits 
campaign respectively, were allowed to take part in the celebrations 
presided over by President Yoweri Museveni.
These are bad signs.

The intimidation and harassment of opposition supporters will undermine the 
legitimacy of the political transition.
If FDC and other opposition supporters are involved in rebel activity, they 
should be arrested through constitutional channels and tried before 
competent courts.

The arrests of people associated with the FDC and its exiled leader have 
sown a climate of fear at a time when the country is gearing up for more 
competitive politics.

The government has a responsibility to facilitate a conducive environment 
for political debate and campaigning.
President Museveni and his administration should send a clear message to the 
police and security agencies to stop harassing and arresting opposition 
supporters over flimsy charges.




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Banks urged to inform on pilfering leaders · Commission also recommends doubling aid David Pallister, Patrick Smith and Larry ElliottSaturday March 5, 2005The Guardian Tony Blair will next week demand a radical shake-up of the west's approach to the world's poorest continent when his year-long Africa Commission calls for a doubling of aid, the dismantling of trade barriers, the writing off of debts and immediate action to stamp out corruption. 
In what is being billed as the most serious analysis of Africa's problems for a generation, the prime minister will use the launch of next Friday's report to urge a new partnership between developed and developing countries. 
The report's recommendations - likely to be the subject of hard bargaining between Britain and her G8 allies in the run-up to the Gleneagles summit in July - include tough measures to tackle bribery by western multinationals in addition to huge injections of cash to fund health, education and improvements to Africa's rudimentary infrastructure. 
Among the proposals are demands that banks in the developed world repatriate money pilfered by corrupt leaders and inform on suspicious accounts. 
The report concludes that corruption has been the single most important factor holding Africa back, but adds: "Fighting corruption involves tackling those who offer bribes as well as those who take them." 
The 400-page report says the west should write off the debts owed by poor countries to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the African Development Bank, increase aid by $25bn (about £13bn) immediately and by a further $25bn from 2010, and eliminate the trade practices that damage poor nations. Originally suggested by the singer and activist Bob Geldof, the commission was launched by Mr Blair a year ago. 
It has 17 members, including Benjamin Mkapa, the president of Tanzania, and Meles Zenawi, prime minister of Ethiopia. 
While not absolving Africa of the need to reform, it says governments, companies and banks in rich countries must all act to help clean up governance. 
"African governments must crack down on corruption," the report says. "Developed nations can help in this. Money and assets stolen from the people of Africa must be repatriated. Western banks must be obliged by law to inform on suspicious accounts. 
"Those who give bribes should be tackled too: foreign companies involved in oil, minerals and other extractive industries must make their payments much more open to public scrutiny. Firms who bribe should be refused export credits." 
The report, due to be published next Friday, was obtained by the magazine Africa Confidential. 
It contains a detailed list of recommendations that Mr Blair and Gordon Brown will urge on other western nations in 2005, while Britain has the presidency of the G8 and the European Union. 
The report says extra aid and more generous debt relief should be used to fund: 

· $20bn a year investment in infrastructure. 
· $10bn-$20bn a year on health systems. 
· $7bn-$8bn a year to fund basic education. 
· $5bn over 10 years for higher education. 
· $3bn over 10 years to help bridge Africa's technology gap. 
· $10bn a year to tackle Aids within five years. 
With conflict seen as a prime cause of poverty, the report says that the west should fund half of the Africa Union's peacekeeping budget and that the global community should start work on an international arms trade treaty. 
The prime minister and the chancellor believe that 2005 is a "make or break" year for Africa, but are prepared for a tough fight to get the recommendations of the report accepted, particularly by the United States. 
In a challenge to the European Union and the US ahead of this December's meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Hong Kong, the report says rich countries "must agree to immediately eliminate trade-distorting support to cotton and sugar and commit by 2010 to end all export subsidies and all trade-distorting support in agriculture." 
It also endorses Mr Brown's aid proposal for an international financing facility, which was rejected by the US and Canada at the February G7 summit. 
Some of the proposals throw into sharp relief the British government's recent reluctance to enforce policies dealing with the exploitation of resources and stolen public funds. 
Critics, including members of the all-party committee on genocide, have pointed out that the Department of Trade has been unenthusiastic about the investigation of allegations by the UN of alleged improper exploitation of resources in the Congo
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Mr. Kabonero,
When will you clear headed chaps stop this politics of force, bribery, deciet and learn the art of political persuation?
In Luwero you killed people to make their surviving offsprings join your rebel ranks. 20 years after Luwero and you are still at it?
It seems like you can take some thugs out of Luwero but you can never take the Luwero out of them!
Shame!
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Mr. Kabonero,
When will you clear headed chaps stop this politics of force, bribery, deciet and learn the art of political persuation?
In Luwero you killed people to make their surviving offsprings join your rebel ranks. 20 years after Luwero and you are still at it?
It seems like you can take some thugs out of Luwero but you can never take the Luwero out of them!
Shame!
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[gook makanga]

Mr. Kabonero,
When will you clear headed chaps stop this politics of force, bribery, deciet and learn the art of political persuation?
In Luwero you killed people to make their surviving offsprings join your rebel ranks. 20 years after Luwero and you are still at it?
It seems like you can take some thugs out of Luwero but you can never take the Luwero out of them!
Shame!
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Luganda will do well as a national languageBy Stephen NakonyaMar 2, 2005 




The issue of the national language has generated a lot of controversy and debate in this country over the years. In the government's White Paper on the Constitutional Review, Swahili was put forward as the second official language. Swahili is widely spoken over a wide region in this part of Africa and considering the government's move towards the East African Federation, and the fact that it is the national language in both Kenya and Tanzania, it was the language that lent itself as the obvious choice over the other local languages. There are, however, a few things that should be taken into consideration before we jump on the Swahili bandwagon.The first is that language is the receptacle of culture. In other words language is culture and culture is language. Now the language one speaks to a greater or lesser extent influences the cultural orientation of a person. Thus people in Anglophone countries like Uganda want to behave like Englishmen (or Americans by extension), dress like them, eat like them, speak like them etc. Why, because we have in effect been transformed into black Englishmen by the fact that English, for the educated at any rate, is the major language used here. That also affects the books we read, the music we listen to, the movies we watch, the radio and the TV programmes we tune in to. The same applies to people in Francophone countries and their desire to ape things French. Though the question is not replacing English with Swahili but making the latter a second official language, Swahili would soon supplant English in every day usage as it is easier to learn even by the unschooled. Being forced to assume a culture foreign to one's own is not a desirable thing and is a form of cultural slavery, but because of our colonial history and the fact that Uganda like many African countries is comprised of many ethnic groups speaking diverse languages, English was chosen as our official language.Ideally, the best language for anyone is one's mother tongue. But much as we resent the fact, colonialism, with the attendant subjugation of indigenous cultures has been going on from the dawn of history, not only in Africa, but throughout the inhabited world. The coming of the white man to colonise Africa in the 19th Century was just a larger manifestation of what had been going on in all the ages past and still continues today. Cultures and languages have been merging, being submerged or displaced by others either through political conquest or by more peaceful means, throughout recorded history. Indeed all cultures and races in the world without exception are products of colonialism in one way or the other. Bearing that in mind, it is time that we accepted that the various European languages that the white man brought with him to Africa must now be considered, for all practical purposes, as "African languages." With all the disadvantages of having to use English as our official language it has however, got some advantages. English is spoken by many countries across the world, and has also practically become the global language. Thus knowledge of English is absolutely necessary in the modern world. In addition, more than 50 per cent of the books in the world are in English as is 60 per cent of all the radio programmes, and more than 70 per cent of all the computer text. This makes available to us a large fund of information as English speakers, quite an advantage when one considers that in the modern world information is power. By introducing Swahili here it is quite naturally going to orientate us to Swahili speaking lands that is to say Kenya and Tanzania, where hails the indigenous speakers of the language. Now the question is, what benefits are going to accrue to us by making that switch to Swahili? What things or what ideas are we going to copy from the Kenyans and Tanzania, seeing they are as underdeveloped as we are?Living in Kenya some years back, I discovered that compared to his Ugandan counterpart, the average educated Kenyan is not as informed, and is more parochial in outlook. The Ugandan education system is also rated very highly. I tried to figure out why this should be until I discovered that it had something to do with the major languages spoken in the two countries, Swahili in Kenya and English in Uganda. I found that the average Kenyan is oriented to the coast, because that is where the indigenous Swahili live, while the spiritual home of most Ugandans is the UK and other English speaking lands. Secondly, information in Kenya had to cross a language barrier (English to Swahili) whether the information is coming in via print or electronic media, for it to reach the average man in the street. Now since they are very few books in Swahili and there are not as many radio and TV programmes worldwide in that language, it severely limits the information that the population is exposed to. This also applied to things 

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trillion 
(in 1985 prices) in aid to poorer countries. But these efforts yielded pitiful 
results, as New York University economist Bill Easterly has shown, because the 
recipient countries lacked the political, legal and financial institutions 
necessary for the money to be used productively.Indeed, much of the 
money that has poured into poor countries since the 1950s has simply leaked back 
out--often to bank accounts in Switzerland--as corrupt rulers have stashed their 
ill-gotten gains abroad. One recent study of 30 sub-Saharan African countries 
calculated that total capital export for the period 1970 to 1996 was in the 
region of $187 billion which, when accrued interest is added, implies that 
Africa's ruling elites had private overseas assets equivalent to 145 percent of 
the public debts their countries owed. The authors of that study conclude that 
"roughly 80 cents on every dollar borrowed by African countries flowed back [to 
the West] as capital flight in the same year." A similar story can be told for 
aid payments, a large proportion of which are simply stolen.When 
corruption is the normWhich brings us back to Kenya and to the 
fundamental problem of African politics: corruption.In recent weeks, two 
stories have perfectly illustrated just what is wrong with the way Kenya has 
come to be governed since independence. The first was the response of the 
authorities in Nairobi to the blunt remarks made by Britian's high commissioner 
to Kenya, Edward Clay, on the subject of the country's "massive looting and/or 
grand corruption."Clay was telling it like it is. According to the think 
tank Transparency International, Kenya is one of the dozen most corrupt 
countries in the world. But the Kenyan government blew a gasket. "Sir Edward 
Clay has just behaved as an enemy of this government," declared the country's 
justice minister. Another spokesman had the temerity to tell the BBC World 
Service that it was the legacy of British colonial rule that made it so hard for 
the Kenyan government to tackle graft.The other story that caught my eye 
concerned the recent violence that flared up in the Kenyan Rift Valley. Just 
another case of ancient ethnic hatred, in this case between Maasai and Kikuyu? 
Not quite. As the BBC reported, "The trouble is thought to have started when 
Maasai herdsmen accused a local Kikuyu politician of diverting a river to 
irrigate his farm, prompting a water shortage further downstream."Like 
Brown, I too recently visited Tanzania, where I got to know the son of an 
opposition politician. For most of his life, his father had been in jail. "You 
see," he explained to me, "what African politicians find hard to understand 
about democracy is why, once they have got power, they should have to hand it 
over to someone else just because of an election." For power means, above all, 
money. It means being the guy to whom Gordon Brown hands the bulging 
envelope.Ruling imperfectlySo Africa's problem is not, despite 
appearances, a problem that aid can solve. On the contrary; aid may simply make 
the problem worse. Africa's real problem is a problem of governance, and it is a 
problem Kenya exemplifies.Nobody, least of all me, claims that British 
imperial rule was perfect. Caroline Elkins is not the first historian to expose 
the dark side of colonialism. But the bottom line is that most sub-Saharan 
African governments since independence have managed to treat their populations 
significantly worse than British colonial administrators did. For all its 
imperfections, the Colonial Civil Service was not corrupt. When money was sent 
to build railways or schools, British officials did not simply pocket 
it.That cannot expunge the overkill that characterized the British 
campaign against Mau Mau. But it serves as a worthwhile reminder that 
exploitation did not cease with independence. Empires have their faults, no 
doubt. But independent African governments have often been more exploitative and 
worse for economic growth. A few more books on that subject would do no harm at 
all--and might also make holidays in Africa a little easier to 
enjoy.
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Dairy Corp. Thai investor 
cash-strappedBy Robert Mukasa  Muhereza KyamuteteraFeb 25, 2005 

  
  

  Malee Sampran 
  Plc, the Thai investor selected by President Yoweri Museveni to lease the 
  state-owned Dairy Corporation for US$1 for three years is financially 
  weak. Its capability to meet its obligations to the Uganda 
  government is highly doubtful.Using a qualified Chartered Accountant, 
  The Monitor carried out a professional analysis of the accounts published 
  by Malee on the internet. The analysis reveals that while the 
  President may have the correct strategic goal of attracting a large 
  international investor to set up a dairy and fruit processing plant in the 
  country, the procedure of handpicking the investor on the basis of a 
  factory inspection was inadequate given as no due diligence was done to 
  establish the financial capability of Malee Sampran. 
  


  

  
ORDERED: President 
Museveni
  Museveni 
  offered Dairy Corporation to Malee for a dollar for a three-year lease 
  "market testing period," following which he expects the Thais to invest in 
  a new multi-million dollar dairy and fruit processing factory.The 
  company is active in the fruit and dairy processing sector in Thailand and 
  has large factories which have been visited by Museveni. However 
  the company's financials reveal that Malee is clearly in no position to 
  make a multi-million dollar investment in a new project.According to 
  the company's accounts, Malee's sales turnover in 2003 was US$42.2 
  million, falling to US$40.86 in 2004. While a drop in turnover of this 
  magnitude is neither abnormal nor unprecedented, the company's gross 
  profit margin in the two years was only US$8.2 to 8.4 million. The 
  gross profit is therefore only 21% of turnover, compared to what The 
  Monitor's consulting accountant said was the normal range of 
  40-75%.More troubling is the fact that the company's profit and loss 
  track record has been one of consistent loss making. Malee Sampran 
  declared losses of US$ 3.8 million in 2002, $1.01 million in 2003 and 
  $0.247 million in 2004. The balance sheet shows accumulated losses 
  of $30.137 million, which indicates that losses for earlier years have 
  been much higher and the company is only approaching break-even point for 
  its first time in 2005.While this trend shows that Malee's profit 
  performance is improving steadily, it is not generating the kind of cash 
  profit it would need to finance a new venture and support the losses that 
  a new venture in Uganda would make for the first several years of the 
  project's life. The company is only just coming above water as a 
  performer in the Thai market.Further analysis of the accounts, by 
  The Monitor, show that Malee's loss-making history has left it with a very 
  weak working capital position. The company had only $320,000 in cash and 
  bank balances at the end of 2004. Its ratio of current assets:current 
  liabilities is 0.6:1, far below the desired ratio of 2:1, which is 
  considered firm according to conventional accounting 
  analysis.Accountants have a second ratio they consider to assess 
  working capital called the "Acid Test Ratio," which examines current 
  assets minus stock, compared to current liabilities. While the recommended 
  ratio is 1:1, Malee's ratio is 0.2:1.What the above two ratios 
  assist in analysing is whether the company can pay off all its current 
  liabilities, such as supplier debts, utilities and bank overdrafts, on the 
  strength of its current assets, such as cash, bank balances and 
  collectable debts due to it, as well as production stocks. Malee's current 
  assets are US$25.15 million while its current liabilities are $45.6 
  million.The recommended ratios take into account the likelihood 
  that considerable percentages of the current assets might not be 
  convertible into cash either because they are bad debts or because they 
  are production stocks, which could attract forced sale prices below their 
  book values. Malee Sampran's low balance sheet ratios show that 
  the company is very low on working capital and is indebted to an unhealthy 
  degree. Malee does not have enough cash and liquidatable current assets to 
  pay off its short-term debts.Malee's balance sheet also shows that 
  while its total equity is only US$ 2.159 million, its cumulative loss is 
  $30.137 million. This means its equity is wiped out 14 times by the 
  losses the company has made since its inception. The ratio of 
  total assets (including fixed assets) to total liabilities (including term 
  loans) is only 1:1, well below the 

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Where are all the President's men? EditorialFeb 26, 2005 




The Monitor has established that Malee Sampran, the company President Yoweri Museveni selected to lease Dairy Corporation at $1 for three years, might not be financially viable to carry out the project.Sounds familiar, doesn't it? 
Yet another story of the President getting it wrong on an `investor' and giving away the family silver to somebody who lacks the capacity to make good of it.
These embarrassing so-called investors prove that we have learnt nothing from the shame and scandal that has dogged our divestiture deals over the past few years.
Voices of prudence cried foul in the Apparels Tri-Star financial set-up, with huge government grants and soft loans bestowed on a powerful "investor", who it turned out, depended almost completely on our monies to set up his investment.
Everyone can see how embarrassingly unsuccessful this Tri-Star venture has turned out, even with the President's personal blessing.
The Tri-Star debacle came at the heels of another deal that left Uganda with egg on its face - the sale of Uganda Commercial Bank to Westmontland Bank Asia. In that deal, these serious investors, with special backing from the powers that be, messed up the privatisation process by their inability to pay up. The farce ended when they run out of the country.The list goes on. 
It is now time to question why this country has all these many financial experts? We know that the President consults them. Question is what is the quality of the advice they are giving him? Does he follow their advice?Because of the huge monies that the country is losing through imprudent dealings with 'investors', not to mention the loss of face, it is clearly time for the President to get better advice.
In fact, he should hire people he can trust to competently execute dealings with investors without him shoving them off the chair and signing bogus deals.The President has a good hand at macroeconomics and his broad view is invaluable.
But we have suffered so long and so much with these 'investors' that we ought to have learnt something from our mistakes.
© 2005 The Monitor Publications.
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Time to end polygamy( THE NEW VISION)
THE United Nations Human Rights Committee has asked the government to outlaw polygamy. The UN argues that polygamy is incompatible with the constitutional requirement for equal treatment of men and women. The UN statement came in reaction to the governments White Paper proposing various amendments to the constitution. Yesterday was St Valentines Day, which celebrates the ideal of romantic monogamous love. This may seem unrealistic amid the grinding struggle of daily life in the countryside, or the crass materialism of the cities. Nevertheless, it should give us cause for further reflection on the UNs proposal. Polygamy is unacceptable for a multitude of reasons. Firstly, it is indeed discriminatory. Men are legally permitted to take more than one wife, but not women. Secondly, it is very unusual to find children of polygamous marriages who are happy with the arrangement. Most polygamous children suffer, in some way, from neglect. Thirdly, most polygamous men cannot afford to support their additional wives and children. They increase human suffering. Fourthly, it should be the human right of all Ugandan children to continue education as far as they are capable. Regrettably, the state cannot yet afford to pay for secondary and tertiary education, so the responsibility falls to the parents. Yet how many polygamous children get the chance to complete university? Fifthly, it perpetuates Ugandas rampant population growth. Sixthly, if the government conducted an opinion poll of women and children of polygamous marriages, there would almost certainly be a huge majority in favour of abolition. Government should not worry about religious or cultural discrimination. Polygamy is almost unheard of in advanced Islamic countries like Iran or Egypt. It is considered outdated and backward, even within Islam. Nor would it fundamentally undermine African culture to eliminate polygamy. Government should take note of the UN recommendation and advance legislation to end polygamy in Uganda. Men should only be allowed to marry one wife. Ends
Published on: Tuesday, 15th February, 2005
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This is worth trying but (especially if posturing is the motive) 
outlawing polygamy won't end it as a socially acceptable practice. The 
beneficiaries of patriarchy will conspire to see that such a law becomes 
a dead letter, just like the law that prescribes the death sentence for 
defiling a minor. A well planned universal primary education will do 
much more towards ending polygamy. In the best of worlds (where we can 
afford everything we want), a mix of policies including at its core a 
law that outlaws polygamy and an aggressive promotion of female 
education would be the way to go.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Time to end polygamy(  THE NEW VISION)
THE United Nations Human Rights Committee has asked the government to 
outlaw polygamy. The UN argues that polygamy is incompatible with the 
constitutional requirement for equal treatment of men and women.

The UN statement came in reaction to the governments White Paper 
proposing various amendments to the constitution.

Yesterday was St Valentines Day, which celebrates the ideal of 
romantic monogamous love. This may seem unrealistic amid the grinding 
struggle of daily life in the countryside, or the crass materialism of 
the cities. Nevertheless, it should give us cause for further 
reflection on the UNs proposal.

Polygamy is unacceptable for a multitude of reasons.
Firstly, it is indeed discriminatory. Men are legally permitted to 
take more than one wife, but not women.

Secondly, it is very unusual to find children of polygamous marriages 
who are happy with the arrangement. Most polygamous children suffer, 
in some way, from neglect.
Thirdly, most polygamous men cannot afford to support their additional 
wives and children. They increase human suffering.

Fourthly, it should be the human right of all Ugandan children to 
continue education as far as they are capable. Regrettably, the state 
cannot yet afford to pay for secondary and tertiary education, so the 
responsibility falls to the parents. Yet how many polygamous children 
get the chance to complete university?
Fifthly, it perpetuates Ugandas rampant population growth.

Sixthly, if the government conducted an opinion poll of women and 
children of polygamous marriages, there would almost certainly be a 
huge majority in favour of abolition.
Government should not worry about religious or cultural 
discrimination. Polygamy is almost unheard of in advanced Islamic 
countries like Iran or Egypt. It is considered outdated and backward, 
even within Islam. Nor would it fundamentally undermine African 
culture to eliminate polygamy.

Government should take note of the UN recommendation and advance 
legislation to end polygamy in Uganda. Men should only be allowed to 
marry one wife.
*Ends*

Published on: *Tuesday, 15th February, 2005*

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Fallen heroes are squirming in their graves Beti Kamya TurwomweIn his last Sunday Vision article titled “Honour our heroes”, Moses Byaruhanga raised the following issues that I found quite interesting: (i) Uganda is now enjoying relative peace and development because the likes of Sam Magara and his brother Martin Mwesiga, fallen NRA combatants who were exhumed and reburied with honours last week, sacrificed their lives. (ii) Therefore, for the likes of Major General Mugisha Muntu, Major Kazoora, Eriya Kategaya etc, to “hobnob with UPC, which killed people in Luweero” is a betrayal of the cause for which Magara and Mwesiga died. (iii) “Fortunately” President Yoweri Museveni, Amama Mbabazi, Kahinda Otafiire and others are still around and “ready to launch yet another struggle” — 
it was not clear against what or whom the struggle might be launched. As I pondered Byaruhanga’s article, I asked myself the following questions, which I now pose to him: Did Magara and Mwesiga sacrifice their lives so that only those people who are either lucky, privileged, docile, quiet or support government positions can have peace and development? Can the spirits of Magara and Mwesiga rest in peace, sandwiched between the spirit of Patrick Manenero, who died while under detention and that of Baronda, who was gunned down in the streets of Rukungiri merely because he had gone to attend a political rally of his presidential candidate? Are Magara and Mwesiga’s spirits jubilating that Col. (rtd) Kizza Besigye, a fellow combatant is in exile for attempting to unseat Museveni in a manner prescribed by our constitution? Byaruhanga, will, of course, argue that it is 
self-inflicted exile and therefore not the government’s responsibility. Are Magara and Mwesiga’s spirits proud that the Supreme Court of Uganda ruled that the 2001 presidential elections were marred by “significant” levels of election malpractices and that we are about to change the Constitution of Uganda so that President Museveni can rule Uganda for more than 20 years? Are Magara and Mwesiga’s spirits jumping with joy for making way for Kakooza Mutale and his weird exploits? Does Byaruhanga think they would have applauded President Museveni for sending his daughter to have a baby in Germany aboard a presidential jet, when a Ugandan who has paid taxes for the past 80 years cannot get a free panadol in any hospital in Uganda? Would they have applauded the kisanja money dished out to some MPs? I put it to Moses that if he really wishes to honour these fallen 
heroes he should not defile their names by associating them with the political obscenity currently going on in Uganda, but leave them to rest in peace, as God so kindly spared them the broken hearts that the Besigyes, Muntus, Kategayas and Kazooras have to deal with now.As for people “hobnobbing with UPC”, I suggest that Byaruhanga and his likes should go slowly on the so-called “atrocities committed by UPC in Luweero”. Evidence is coming out, particularly from former Kadogos, now frustrated and disillusioned UPDF soldiers, who, if their security was guaranteed, would testify that they were recruited into the NRA after their parents had been brutally murdered by people they were told were Uganda government soldiers, but whom they now know were NRA rebels. Incidentally, does Byaruhanga remember that the NRM has for long been hobnobbing with 
former UPC stalwarts Nsaba Buturo, Charles Alai, Francis Butagira, Jovino Akaki, Kefa Sempangi and now Ephraim Kamuntu, or is hobnobbing with UPC a private domain of the NRM? And what is the NRM doing with Ali Bamuze, Taban Amin and many others with tainted track records? Byaruhanga’s veiled threat that President Museveni, Amama Mbabazi, Otafiire and others are still around and willing to launch another struggle, cannot go unnoticed. Who are they going to struggle against? Will they go back to the bush when they lose the 2006 elections? Surely, can Magara and Mwesiga rest in peace if they knew that after 19 years of NRM rule, there might still be need for President Museveni and his clique to launch “yet another struggle” as seen through the eyes of none other than the President’s own Private Secretary for Political Affairs? Ends

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Letter to a Kampala Friend: 

By Muniini K. Mulera in Toronto Democracy may well be hinging on Prof. NsibambiFeb 15, 2005




Dear Tingasiga:
According to The Monitor, Prime Minister Apollo Nsibambi told journalists last week that amending the constitution to enable President Yoweri Museveni to succeed himself in 2006 would not be injurious to good governance. "In Britain as you know there are no term limits but the polity is democratic and we think that every five years people will have a chance to either reject that person or to renew his or her mandate.So the critical issue is to ensure that the elections are there," Nsibambi reportedly said. As long as presidential elections are held regularly then the Presidency can always be checked against despotism.I have made the prime ministers acquaintance in recent years and have come to hold him in very high regard. He is not one to make statements without due consideration of the import that every word carries. 





STRESSING A POINT: Prof. Nsibambi is one of the best things to happen to government
To be sure Nsibambi, a former university professor of political science, is very well schooled in the history, theory and practice of democracy.Therefore, after reading and re-reading the brief report of Nsibambis remarks, I concluded that the reporter either misunderstood or deliberately misrepresented the prime ministers comments. There is no way Dr Nsibambi would equate regular elections with democracy or good governance. There is no way he would even remotely pretend that Uganda possessed the political cultural strengths that underlie British democracy. A quick survey of contemporary history reveals many examples of countries whose autocrats, dictators and political fraudsters would have a legitimate claim to being democrats if holding regular elections was the definition of democracy. From Marshall Mobutus Zaire to Comrade Mugabes Zimbabwe; from Gnassingbe Eyademas Togo to Kenyatta/ Mois Kenya, the citizens held regular elections during which they re-elected the rulers with landslide majorities over and over again. Yet few people took such events as anything but charades meant to fulfil political rituals that appeased the despots benefactors in Washington, London and Paris, and deceived the citizens that they were participating in their own governance. Uganda has held many elections in its relatively short history, the majority of them during the reign of Museveni. More elections are on the agenda. Yet this does not mean much under the current circumstances. You can hold annual presidential elections if you wish, but as long as it is only the incumbent and his supporters who enjoy the rights of democratic competition against a neutered and handcuffed opposition, the joke will be on you. Ugandas rulers organised, ran and won fraudulent parliamentary elections in December 1980. But the joke was on them. Citizens, led by Mr Yoweri K. Museveni, took up arms in rebellion. Five years later, the country was on its knees, albeit with a functioning multi-party parliamentary democracy.Although Ugandas rulers, now headed by the same Museveni who resisted the 1980 fraud, organised, ran and won a fraudulent presidential election in 2001, the joke was on them. They won power but lost all the credibility they had painstakingly built up over the years. It was no surprise that the ruling National Resistance Movement [NRM] suffered major cracks, with many of its formidable leaders either quitting or being thrown out. Post-2001 Uganda has become more politically tense, more polarized and more militarized than it had been before the last presidential election. We now have talk of yet another armed rebellion, which has not done any favour to the countrys image or economy. And so the constitution will soon be amended to lift presidential term limits and to return to multi-party politics. The country will then hold yet another election, probably with President Museveni as the only candidate allowed the full freedom to campaign exploiting the public resources to sell himself to the electorate. Indeed preparations are already underway to have hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Major Kakoza Mutales paramilitary enforcers to beat the electorate into line to ensure that Ugandans vote wisely. So the outcome of the 2006 election is fairly predictable. And so the story will be if Museveni is candidate in 2011 and 2016 and 2021, and even 2026. [The constitution will probably be amended to remove age limits when Museveni hits his seventies.] Museveni may keep winning his customary 70 per cent of the vote at each of those sham elections. But such elections will not make Uganda any more democratic than it was in 1980. If anything, they will create conditions for a return to widespread violence.We fool ourselves when we deny this reality. We fool ourselves when we accuse those who point out these truths of being warmongers. Democracy demands that there be equal opportunities for all 

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NEWS EXTRA

Kenya's future threatened by thieving pot-bellied State officials Story by PETER KIMANI Publication Date: 2/9/2005 






Before harambee [communal funds drive] was outlawed, blamed for abetting corruption, it was a sure crowd puller in many rural out-posts. 
"Tumpigie makofi ya kilo... "the emcee would instruct, "Heeep-heeep! heep-hp!" as some urbane man descended the creaky dais after depositing several hundred thousand shillings into a basket. 
For the coming weeks, awed villagers would debate their heroes (sheroes were not born yet, and Mama Rainbow was not on the scene yet), and commit to memory the mind-boggling figures that the leaders, "escorted" by their city friends, had raised. 
It was rarely revealed that most of the cheques bounced, and that few ever paid up their public pledges. So the schools remained unpaved and windowless, although several harambees would be organised every year towards that realisation. 
In the village where we trod barefoot, rushing to school or carrying fodder for the animals, we measured time according to the movement of a tractor from the near-by coffee farm, as the driver delivered, illegally, of course, water or firewood to the manager's many homes. 
These, one can say, were days of small-time corruption. But the seeds of corruption had fallen on fertile ground, and would germinate and grow over the years to its present gigantic size. 
Come the 1990s, a new generation of politicians and businessmen was born. 
They carried fly-whisks and walking sticks, alright, but also had briefcases. Pin-stripe designer suits covered their pot-bellies; fake smiles and blank gazes covered their lies. 
These lies transcended election-time pledges, which none of the political class bothered to fulfil. They lied about their wealth, work or family. 
As the Silicon Valley was producing computer wizards, Kenya's real talent lay in middle-aged men with no discernible qualification, save for being a politician. 
To drive a big car, one had to be a politician; to give huge donations at harambees, one had to be a politician. Political patronage, in a way, is one of the most entrenched practices in this country, and rookie politicians learn before long they cannot survive without some patron. 
Businessmen long realised that they, too, needed some wing to hide under, as long as they could break even after paying hefty percentage to the provident politician. 
This combination of calculating businessmen and avaricious politicians are to blame for the mess that Kenya is in today. The Goldenberg scandal may have epitomised this culture, but then, there is the dossier that British High Commissioner has talked about last week, featuring 20 scandals, and their magnitude are yet to be known. 
The trouble with the Kibaki government is that it is peopled by individuals whose single-minded goal is to leave office richer than they started, and the only resources available for exploitation are public resources. 
And here belies the greatest irony: the leaders want to take with them something to show for their time in office, when there is absolutely nothing to show in the country's development. 
The same politicians have gone ahead to enact legislations that give the suggestion that they are committed to rooting out corruption. The Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes bill introduced in 1998, or the wealth declaration forms introduced in 2003, have offered a convenient smoke-screen that graft is not to be tolerated. 
Even Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission was set up last year, not without acrimony. But for every new outfit established, few more more scams are reported, which hints at the growing confidence of the corrupt elements in government. 
And since Kenya is a "democracy," aren't the people to blame for keeping those sleazy characters who rob them blind? 
Part of the problem lies with Kenyan psyche. They have come to believe that, since leadership is about "eating," it's better to elect a "rich" leader, they argue, since a poor man will eat to his fill before he can allow some morsels to drop to the electorate. 
This notion is wrong on two counts: The political leadership in this country seeks to enrich itself by utilising its lofty political positions, then clinging on to power to retain the wealth. 
In which case, corruption is a an attractive tool for them, and will remain attractive so as long as they are in power. They cannot end it since they started it, and they continue to benefit from it. It's as simple as that. 
Looking for a new kid on the block? Look no further than the august House. He, or perhaps she, need not have a university degree (they undergo a different form of education in their unique discipline), and need not have any experience in formal profession or trade. They just need to be a politicians. And friends of politicians
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Now is the time for changeBecause of terrorism and 
oil, Africa might stop being an afterthoughtBy 
Laurie GoeringTribune's Africa 
correspondentPublished February 6, 2005
For 30 years, foreign aid has trickled into Africa with little 
noticeable effect.The continent today has the 
dubious distinction of being the only place in the world that is actually 
getting poorer, even as the United Nations pushes to halve world poverty by 
2015.Nearly eradicated diseases such as polio are returning, and 
millions die each year not only of AIDS but of everyday scourges like diarrhea 
and malaria. After years of grand but failed African aid plans, jobs are still 
few, education is still poor and the continent's share of global trade remains 
so small it barely registers.So when a dream team of 
international aid advocates--entrepreneur Bill Gates, singer Bono, former U.S. 
President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair among them--stood 
up at the World Economic Forum meeting last month in Davos, Switzerland, and 
said now is the time to change Africa with increased aid, there was more than a 
little skepticism in the audience.But, remarkably, the men might just be 
right.While efforts to reverse Africa's woes still face huge obstacles, 
an interesting set of new pressures in Africa, Europe and the United States 
suggests this might be the most auspicious time yet to try to shock Africa out 
of its stagnation and misery."This is the moment," agreed John Stremlau, 
head of international relations at University of the Witwatersrand in 
Johannesburg. "There are convergences in the north and in the south on Africa 
right now. They may not be sufficient, but Bono's statement that this is 
Africa's moment resonates with me."The world's most 
desperate continent has long been an afterthought on the world agenda. But that 
has begun changing recently for two important reasons: terrorism and 
oil.The United States, worried about how disruptions of Middle 
East oil supplies might affect its economy, has begun looking in earnest for 
alternatives and has settled on Africa as one viable option. Known African 
reserves are dramatically smaller than those in troubled Iraq and other big oil 
nations, but new supplies are coming on line in places like Chad and Equatorial 
Guinea as well as old standbys like Nigeria and Angola.Leaders in the 
United States and Europe also have taken a look at Africa's juxtaposition to the 
Middle East and at the continent's substantial Muslim population, and decided 
that if combating terrorism is a new world priority, reducing the region's 
misery and frustrations might ultimately make it a less fertile recruiting 
ground for terrorist groups, including Al Qaeda."Africa is not the front 
line of the war against terrorism. But it could soon be," Bono warned at 
Davos.Africa, meanwhile, is making efforts of its own to ensure that any 
aid sent south is used effectively rather than being squandered as in the past. 
Under the new African Union, a reformulation of the failed Organization of 
African Unity, leaders are drawing up plans and priorities for African 
development rather than relying on ideas mandated by the World Bank and 
International Monetary Fund, which have often proved failures in the 
past.Promising signsJust as importantly, African nations are 
showing a few early signs of a real commitment to ending the continent's 
interminable wars, holding fair elections and sanctioning bad 
governments.Many African countries have now signed African Union 
protocols agreeing to uphold human rights and principles of democratic 
governance. Some have agreed to submit to "peer review" of their policies by 
neighboring states. The number of fair democratic elections is growing, economic 
growth continentwide is expected to average 5 percent this year, and many 
long-standing conflicts--in Angola, Liberia, Sierra Leone and southern 
Sudan--are now at an end.Those changes come as new reports suggest 
richer countries may be willing to boost aid--and that dramatic boosts might 
actually work.A new United Nations study headed by Jeffrey Sachs of 
Columbia University suggests that if rich nations double their international aid 
to poor countries from a quarter of 1 percent of their income to a half of 1 
percent--something he called "utterly affordable"--extreme poverty worldwide 
could be cut by half in 10 years.Britain's government, meanwhile, also 
plans to use its position this year as head of the G-7 group of rich countries 
and of the European Union to push hard for doubling aid to Africa and winning a 
better deal for the continent at trade talks. Britain's new Commission for 
Africa--an effort compared to the U.S. Marshall Plan for Europe after World War 
II--aims to raise an extra $50 billion from rich countries, a doubling of 
current aid.The United States, however, potentially 
one of the biggest donors, may not be so receptive to dramatic boosts in 
spending for Africa. Faced 

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Letter to A Kampala Friend 

By Muniini 
K. Mulera In Toronto Life president dies, and his country follows Feb 7, 2005
  


  
Dear Tingasiga:
The president of the republic came to power through 
military means. After years of undisguised military rule, the 
president supervised the adoption of a new constitution that paved 
the way for him to make the transition from official military rule 
to an elected presidency. 
With the advantage of incumbency, and the opposition 
groups in disarray, the president sleepwalked into his old office, 
the whole thing legitimized by voters who were quite content with 
"no change." 
During his last election under the new constitution, 
the president assured his people that he needed one last term to 
prepare for a smooth transition to a new leadership. 
No sooner had he been sworn in for his very last term 
than whispers began to circulate that the country could not survive 
without him at the helm. The whispers soon turned into recitals, 
then choruses of reverence and pleading and finally a symphony of a 
thousand singing of Ekisanja, a third elected term for the man whose 
departure from power was unthinkable to most of those whose personal 
fortunes hinged on his presidency. 
The president himself, while feigning disinterest, let 
it be known that he would not stand in the way should the people 
choose to ask him to continue to rule them. 
His prime minister told the world that though the 
constitution required the president to relinquish power at the end 
of his second elected term, he [the president] had "decided to 
sacrifice himself once more" for the sake of his people. One was 
left in a most lugubrious mood upon learning of the prime minister's 
deceptive justification for the fraud. 
And so the constitution was duly adjusted to suit the 
president's interests. Another fraudulent election was held to 
legitimize the predetermined self-succession, the charade once again 
given a seal of approval by the president's hand-picked electoral 
commission. 
Everything was going according to script, the 
president and his courtiers sharply focused on the next Act in the 
long play in which the citizens were, as usual, mere extras, their 
role being to legitimize the fraud every five years, before 
repairing to their misery in the villages and slums of the republic. 

Then came the great spoiler, the grim ripper that 
fears no one, not even the most heavily armed and vicious 
presidential protection brigade on the continent. 
The president, a full General in his country's armed 
forces, was felled by a simple heart attack as he was about to be 
flown off to Europe for treatment. Not even the publicly funded 
presidential jet could save the man's life. Not even the hundreds of 
millions of dollars stashed away in places known and unknown could 
stay the hand of death. 
One can imagine his guards and court dancers 
helplessly struggling to believe that the immortal man whose word 
had been the law, one who was only second to God, had entered 
eternal sleep across the Great River, in a land to which he had 
dispatched a fair number of opponents during his many years on the 
throne. 
One can imagine the shock and fear that must have 
gripped the citizens upon hearing that their only visionary ruler, 
the indispensable General, he who was his country and his country 
him, was no more. 
It was very revealing that within minutes of the great 
man's death, his country's borders and airspace were closed. Clearly 
his country had not prepared for life after their only visionary 
president. The man was not supposed to die. At least not yet. 

Not even his long history of ill-health had persuaded 
his courtiers and a large section of his countrymen that the 
gentleman was made of the same flesh, bones and blood 

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  Without Mincing Words 
  
  Andrew M. 
  Mwenda Why Botswana is a 
success story Feb 6, 2005

  
  

  Two weeks ago in 
  this column, I promised to return with a political explanation for 
  Botswana's democratic and developmental success. To do this, I want to 
  argue that "self interest" more than "noble intentions" of its leaders 
  explains this success. I will therefore focus on the constituencies that 
  dominate the political scene in Botswana and how they have used the state 
  to promote their particular interests. 
  This way I hope to 
  shade light on why Botswana is functioning multi party democracy; has 
  built a competent and coherent bureaucracy; why it has been successful in 
  promoting rapid and sustained economic growth; but also why the country 
  sustains high income disparities (50 percent live below the poverty line 
  compared to Uganda's 38 percent), and why it was initially unable to curb 
  the Aids pandemic.
  


  

  
SUCCESSFUL: President 
  Mogae
  Just as one repacks 
  a hastily filled rucksack after a few days on the trail - throwing out the 
  waste, putting things in order of importance, and balancing the load - I 
  am going to repack my theoretical baggage and argue that countries develop 
  when those controlling power find it in their immediate interest to 
  promote policies and build institutions that ensure rapid capital 
  accumulation.
  This is not to 
  disregard "noble intentions" but rather to underline the primacy of 
  "self-interest" and also to demonstrate that the two are not mutually 
  exclusive. Development is a byproduct of their coincidence: when the 
  pursuit of leaders' self-interest requires democratic institutions and 
  fosters development.
  At independence in 
  1966, Botswana was the worst of Britain's colonial possessions, a 
  backwater of empire. It had no army, no strong bureaucracy, and a very 
  weak middleclass. The country's capital city was a small town inside South 
  Africa - Gaborone was only built after independence. It depended on cattle 
  production, export of manual labour to South African mines and customs 
  union fees from South Africa. These weaknesses were to prove a blessing in 
  disguise.
  The first president, 
  Seretse Khama, was the chief of the Bamangwato, the largest tribe in the 
  country. This gave him the political legitimacy to strip other chiefs of 
  their political power unlike in Uganda where, Milton Obote, whose Langi 
  ethnicity coupled with his "commoner's" background only helped to 
  consolidate hatred against him when he abolished the kingdoms of Buganda, 
  Bunyoro and Toro. 
  Khama was also the 
  largest cattle rancher, while Obote was a non-propertied individual and 
  President Yoweri Museveni only accumulated his ranches when he was already 
  in power. Khama's vice president, Ketumile Masire, was the second largest 
  cattle rancher in the country and many of the leaders of the ruling party, 
  the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), were large ranchers as well who 
  sought to use the state as an instrument in promoting returns to cattle 
  ranching. 
  To achieve this, 
  they needed a strong and competent bureaucracy to negotiate international 
  treaties. Today, Botswana is one of the largest exporters of beef to the 
  European Union. When they discovered large diamond deposits, this same 
  bureaucracy proved a great asset, negotiating one of the most rewarding 
  diamond contracts in the world with the Anglo American company, 
  D'Beers.
  Power in most of 
  post independence Africa went to the dispossessed groups: Kwame Nkrumah 
  who organised the "Veranda Boys" in Ghana or Julius Nyerere who mobilised 
  peasants in Tanzania. In Uganda political power went to a deprived elite 
  who sought to employ it to "Africanise" business by nationalising foreign 
  assets, or dispossessing rich Indians merchants as Idi Amin did. 
  
  In Botswana, 
  political power at independence went into the hands of a propertied elite 
  who sought alliance with international capital to promote their interests. 
  But history is important in shaping political trajectories. Because there 
  was a limited presence of multi national or Asian capital, Botswana did 
  not have a strong history of racial privilege where foreigners owned a 
  large slice of the economy while the indigenous people worked for them as 
  cleaners as did Uganda where at independence there was a lot of resentment 
  to Asian capital. 
  The above factors 
  explain why Botswana pursued policies that favored foreign direct 
 

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Should 
  one who kills by the sword die by the sword? 
  By Solomon Muyita 
   Lominda Afedraru 
Feb 1, 
2005 
  


  
Uganda is one of 43 African countries that have the 
death penalty in their laws. South Africa, Zambia, Mozambique, 
Djibouti, Guinea Bisau, Mauritius and Ivory Coast have abolished 
it.
Within 
a week of the signing of their death warrants by the president, 
prison warders go from cell to cell calling out the condemned 
prisoners destined for execution.This is normally done early 
in the morning, as they are forcefully ordered out to prepare to 
face the hangman.They are handcuffed and clamped with leg-irons. 
Usually they are allowed a moment to say farewell to their fellow 
condemned prisoners.Some of them kick and scream in a futile 
attempt to resist the gallows; and many soil themselves in the 
process.The officer-in-charge of the Prison Condemned 
Section (OC) reminds each of the prisoners of the crime one was 
convicted of, the sentence imposed upon each one of them and the 
time left for him to be hanged.The countdown to the end of their 
life begins, as the hanging is normally carried out in three days. 
Prison authorities get in touch with the prisoners 
relatives and the condemned are given the opportunity to make their 
wills and make peace with God too.Most of the prisoners 
collapse, wail and start praying to God. The prisoners are then 
taken to the death chambers/gallows in Section E of the prison and 
locked up in individual cells, witnesses have 
revealed.While the born-again prisoners confess their guilt 
and express readiness to meet their creator, others insist that they 
are innocent and they had found peace in God and forgiveness for the 
people that had maliciously caused all that misery upon their lives. 
At this time, the priests and imams are present to give them 
solace and comfort.The prisoners heights and weights are 
recorded to measure how far one will drop when the lever of the 
execution table is released. The formula is supposed to help the 
condemned prisoners to drop without their heads being plucked off, 
and helps in determining their coffin sizes. In the meantime, 
the OC ensures that the execution equipment is ready to crack and 
the gallows are clean. He restricts the prisoners movements and 
orders for coffins coffins. 

  

  
THE BATTLEGROUND: The countrys top legal 
  brains are fighting one of the most controversial issues in 
  Uganda - the death 
penalty.
Prison 
authorities normally assign prison warders outside the condemned 
section to execute the work because those in the death section 
normally have close links with the inmates and wouldnt freely help 
in their execution. The team is normally paid special 
allowances in advance. Prison warders, the executioner, the 
prison medical doctors and religious leaders witness the hanging 
process. Only the remaining prisoners are kept away to avoid 
terrifying them before their time. On the execution day, 
prisoners are dressed in unusual overall-like outfits and are 
covered from head to toe without any openings for the hands or feet. 
They are also handcuffed and shackled to check any violent 
resistance. Black hoods are put on their heads to prevent them from 
seeing how they are going to be executed and those witnessing their 
execution. At the execution chambers, the prisoners legs 
are tied-up and a noose placed around their necks. The noose is 
tightened at the back of their heads, cutting off their breathing. 
Prisoners who are not certifiably dead are killed by hitting the 
back of their heads with a hammer or a crowbar. Their bodies are 
buried in a mass grave at the prison and their names are added to 
the Black Book, which is kept under lock and key by the OC Upper 
Prison.Uganda is one of 43 African countries that have the 
death penalty in their laws. South Africa, Zambia, Mozambique, 
Djibouti, Guinea Bisau, 

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WHEN DISASTER STRIKES: A THEOLOGICAL DILEMMAFATE, 
KARMA, BAD LUCK OR GOD'S HAND?A question that has no adequate 
answerBy Robert McClory, a former Roman Catholic 
priest and professor emeritus in journalism at the Medill SchoolPublished February 6, 2005
Ever since Adam and Eve cried out to heaven over the broken 
body of their son Abel, believers have been asking the same question: 
Why?Why does God allow the innocent to undergo terrible suffering and 
death? Why must a 3-year-old be stricken with a fatal malignancy? Why should 
loving parents die in a senseless automobile collision involving a drunken 
driver, leaving their orphaned children devastated?The question hovers 
over human history. It's as old as the dawning of human consciousness and as new 
as today's newspaper.Usually, the question is asked personally and very 
privately by survivors.No answer is expected. But when suffering and 
death come on a titanic scale, as in December's tsunami, they arouse a larger, 
more demanding, more public "Why?"The first bodies scarcely had been 
deposited in mass graves when a tsunami-like wave of journalists spread across 
the horizon, probing for answers wherever they might be found--from relatives 
and neighbors of the deceased, from scientists and poets and philosophers, and 
especially from the purveyors of the world's religions.These latter are 
the experts, and if anyone has the answer, they are expected to have 
it.Scores of ministers, priests, rabbis, imams and gurus were prodded 
for their explanations of the horror. Mostly, they were stumped, but they tried 
anyway. Mass murder, like the 9/11 tragedy caused by deliberate action, can at 
least provide an immediate source: the innate perversity of human 
nature.That gives little comfort, but it at least identifies a 
villain.The tsunami, on the other hand, presented no such human cause. 
How can you indict tectonic plates slipping around under the ocean's floor? The 
villain was nature, and so for believers, the blame must lie with nature's 
author: God.As reporters took notes, religious-minded people strove 
mightily to reconcile this almost unprecedented death and damage with God's 
will. Their explanations ran the gamut from the facetious to the profound to the 
unfathomable.Woody Allen once said, "If God is all-powerful and 
all-loving, he certainly is an underachiever."Some of the responses 
suggested that God is indeed not the all-controlling master of the universe we 
learned about in childhood. In his ever-popular book, "When Bad Things Happen to 
Good People," Rabbi Harold Kushner said that the orderliness of the universe is 
not yet complete, the laws of nature are blind, and God does not interfere with 
those laws.In other words, parts of creation are somehow outside the 
creator's control.What God does is give strength and courage to 
survivors, he suggested, enabling them to pick up their lives and be 
compassionate to the suffering. Other religious teachers declared that 
catastrophes like the tsunami are the direct handiwork of God and are sent to 
punish humans for their sinfulness either in this life or perhaps in their 
previous lives.Still others argued that the devastation was sent by God 
to test the faith of humans, to see if they would still believe in him and obey 
him, like the biblical figure Job, even after God stripped away everything and 
everybody they loved.The image of God that emerges from these 
explanations is a tattered one--a weak God, or a vengeful or jealous or 
capricious one. In the end, almost all who wrestled with the question had to 
admit, despite their theologizing, that they don't really know why God allows 
disasters, because they don't know much about God.They had to 
acknowledge what the 4th Century African bishop Augustine said, "Since it is God 
we are speaking of, you do not understand it. If you could understand it, it 
would not be God's. Whatever you can describe will not be indescribable. But God 
precisely is indescribable."God is mystery, he said, and can only be 
grasped in an imperfect and tentative way using the perishable, vegetable-shaped 
masses residing in our skulls."We see now through a glass darkly," said 
St. Paul, in one of his rare understatements.In the aftermath of the 
tsunami, it would be a great step forward for this war-torn world if God's 
representatives and earnest followers were to reflect on all their certainties 
about God's will on many matters.How can some people be so absolutely 
confident that the supreme being wants scores of innocent civilians murdered in 
his holy name? How can others be so sure that he demands explicit faith in Jesus 
for salvation, or that he detests homosexuality, or absolutely condemns 
artificial birth control, or abhors stem cell research, or is revolted by blood 
transfusions, or is determined that no woman shall ever serve as a 
priest?For that matter, how can pious leaders of government be certain 
that God wants them to spread 

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WHEN DISASTER STRIKES: A 
THEOLOGICAL DILEMMAFATE, KARMA, BAD LUCK OR GOD'S 
HAND?Moving beyond compassion fatigueBy 
Michael Diamondpresident of World Resources 
ChicagoPublished February 6, 2005
In 1977, while working in Bangladesh, I was walking along a raised mound of 
dirt that served as the only road among the bright green rice paddies in Khulna. 
I was puzzled by sections that had recently been washed out by the monsoon 
rains, since people's livelihood depended on this road to transport their rice 
to their homes and markets. When I asked the local farmers why their road was in 
such poor shape, their response was even more puzzling. They were waiting for 
the international relief agencies to come back and pay them to rebuild their 
road.Since 1971, Bangladesh, a country slightly smaller than Iowa with a 
population of more than 130 million, was recovering from its struggle for 
independence and from a series of catastrophic tidal waves from the Bay of 
Bengal. An estimated 2 million to 3 million people had died, and 20 million more 
were displaced. The outpouring of compassion from around the world was 
unprecedented. George Harrison had organized the Concert for Bangladesh at 
Madison Square Garden, and millions of dollars and scores of humanitarian 
agencies went into Bangladesh to provide humanitarian relief.Some 
organizations had visited this village in Khulna and had seen the washed-out 
roads. So they paid the local farmers to rebuild their roads. Even though these 
farmers had built these roads and maintained them for hundreds of years, the 
farmers were now waiting for these rich agencies to come back and pay them to 
rebuild the roads again. This experience made me realize that it's difficult to 
be compassionate without undermining the local capacity.The tsunami 
disaster has raised this issue again. More than $600 million has been donated in 
the United States. Volunteers have traveled to remote areas where they risk 
their lives searching for missing people, reuniting families, helping bury the 
dead and clear debris. This is not unusual. After the horrific hurricane season, 
people from throughout the United States donated their services to rebuild 
affected communities in the South.All of these contributions and 
services reflect underlying values that make our country and our communities as 
strong as we are today. And it is not just our values that enable us to be so 
compassionate and generous, it is also a reflection of our capacity.We 
have economic surplus to share with those less fortunate through government 
programs, civil society organizations and the private sector. We have skills 
that are vital to our own community development and serve us in disasters. We 
have insurance companies that cover part of our losses. We have access to 
credit, from commercial financial institutions and government programs. We have 
friends, neighbors and family who help us cope. When we exercise our compassion 
at home, we use these resources to bolster and strengthen the local 
infrastructure by rebuilding and rehabilitating our communities, as well as 
enhancing our capacity to prepare for future disasters.Vulnerable 
communities in low-income countries have the same infrastructure, except theirs 
is more fragile. They have families, political and social structures, religious 
institutions, schools, businesses, roads and markets. However, there is little 
redundancy. They may have a road, but only one road that is easily washed away. 
They may have drinking water, but the water has to be carried several miles or 
comes from open tanks or wells that may be contaminated. They have access to 
credit, but from money lenders who will charge outrageous interest. They are 
hard workers but they live on a small margin and are extremely susceptible to 
disasters. One crisis is sufficient to completely destroy their way of 
life.When any disaster strikes, this fragile infrastructure is strained 
beyond its capacity and breaks down. People starve, there are epidemics of 
cholera, typhoid, malaria; the surviving families often have to leave their 
homes in search of employment in the cities or even other countries, or seek 
even more drastic options such as selling their children to labor or sex 
traffickers.Yet when a community has organized itself to build its 
irrigation system or health clinic or school, this infrastructure is more likely 
to be maintained by the villagers themselves, and the skills they learn from 
organizing and building these systems are useful in responding to future 
disasters.Thanks to telecommunication, we can view these disasters 
almost immediately, feel people's suffering; our hearts reach out, and we open 
our wallets. When the news frenzy dies down, so does our compassionate 
response.Compassion fatigue is setting in for the tsunami disaster and 

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President donates 
Dairy Corp to Thai By Andrew M. Mwenda 
Jan 30, 2005 

  
  

  KAMPALA  President Museveni has directed that the 
  Dairy Corporation Limited be given to a Thai businessman at a fee of only 
  one dollar. Highly placed sources at State House said that the 
  President's directive was issued on Thursday last week.
  Our 
  investigations show that the Privatisation Unit (PU), under the ministry 
  of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, scheduled the Dairy 
  Corporation for privatisation early last year.
  Sources said 
  the exercise had reached the state of pre-qualifying bidders through 
  competitive bidding.
  However, on 
  October 25, 2004, Vice President Gilbert Bukenya wrote the minister 
  responsible for privatisation, Prof. Peter Kasenene, saying: "His 
  Excellency the President has directed that Dairy Corporation should be 
  given to Malee Sampran Sampran Public Company Limited whose chairman is 
  Mr. Chatchai Boonyarat for a period of three years."
  The letter 
  further says, "This is therefore to direct you to initiate the process of 
  drawing up the terms of the lease so as to finalise the lease agreement in 
  order to enable the Malee Company to commence operation by January 
  2005."
  The PU 
  complied with the President's directive and drew up a draft agreement for 
  the lease to the Thai company. 
  However, 
  sources say, the PU drew up an agreement in which it required Malee to pay 
  a $1 million as lump some payment for the lease, then oblige the company 
  to pay a percentage of the profits from Dairy Corporation to the 
  government, and also to pay a yearly rental fee to the 
  government.
  A highly 
  placed source at State House said that when the President learnt of the 
  requirements under the draft lease agreement, State House issued yet 
  another directive to the PU to remove all the payment provisions of the 
  draft. 
  Instead, the 
  source said, State House directed that Malee should only pay $1 (one 
  dollar) - a nominal fee - for Dairy Corporation, virtually handing the 
  corporation to the Thai businessman on a silver platter.
  People 
  familiar with the transaction said that because of the State House 
  directive, Malee will take Dairy Corporation from the PU even without 
  presenting a business plan on what it intends to do with the corporation. 
  
  The only 
  promise the Malee chairman has made is that he will, within one year of 
  taking over the corporation, build a dairy plant in Mbarara from the 
  profits he makes.
  The Sunday 
  Monitor has learnt that Malee chairman Boonyarat is not going to invest 
  here as Malee but will float a company locally to take over Dairy 
  Corporation. 
  "Yes, there 
  was a government directive to offer Dairy Corporation to Malee and the 
  [privatisation] minister can answer all the other details," said PU 
  Executive Director Michael Opagi.
  Minister 
  Kasenene confirmed on Friday the details outlined here save for the 
  nominal fee. "We have not yet agreed on the figure, so the one dollar 
  price of Dairy Corporation is false. We shall negotiate with them on the 
  figure."
  However, 
  sources close to State House maintained that the President's directive was 
  clear: Malee should only be charged a nominal fee, which is usually one 
  dollar.
  Kasenene then 
  amended his statement and instead said the President directed that PU 
  "should not ask for a prohibitive figure that will frustrate the 
  investor". 
  However, when 
  asked why the President not only disregarded the competitive bidding 
  process but also issued a directive to PU that virtually arm-twists the 
  unit to offer a state owned enterprise to a private foreign investor at a 
  low price, Kasenene said: "That is his prerogative and I cannot comment on 
  it."
  The PU 
  recapitalised the Dairy Corporation at Shs2 billion toward the end of 2003 
  to improve its performance, but Kasenene said: "In spite of 
  recapitisation, the Dairy Corporation was still struggling and it needs 
  more capital injection because the machines are old. We did not want to 
  put more money into it, but instead sell it off. It is a strategic 
  enterprise which if it collapsed, the farmers would suffer."
  The Dairy 
  Corporation was established in 1967 as a parastatal in the ministry of 
  agriculture, animal industry and fisheries. In 1998, a new law was passed 
  separating the commercial from the regulatory and development functions of 
  the corporation.
  The number of 
  farmers selling milk to the corporation rose from 3,280 in 1988 to more 

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[Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga]

I can see that the sad story of privatization hasn't changed one bit. 
Ssebagabe Museveni is still busy issuing chits to give away the family 
silverware for a song.


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
*President donates Dairy Corp to Thai *
/ By Andrew M. Mwenda /
/// Jan 30, 2005 /
*KAMPALA * President Museveni has directed that the Dairy Corporation 
Limited be given to a Thai businessman at a fee of only one dollar.
Highly placed sources at State House said that the President's 
directive was issued on Thursday last week.

Our investigations show that the Privatisation Unit (PU), under the 
ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, scheduled the 
Dairy Corporation for privatisation early last year.

Sources said the exercise had reached the state of pre-qualifying 
bidders through competitive bidding.

However, on October 25, 2004, Vice President Gilbert Bukenya wrote the 
minister responsible for privatisation, Prof. Peter Kasenene, saying: 
His Excellency the President has directed that Dairy Corporation 
should be given to Malee Sampran Sampran Public Company Limited whose 
chairman is Mr. Chatchai Boonyarat for a period of three years.

The letter further says, This is therefore to direct you to initiate 
the process of drawing up the terms of the lease so as to finalise the 
lease agreement in order to enable the Malee Company to commence 
operation by January 2005.

The PU complied with the President's directive and drew up a draft 
agreement for the lease to the Thai company.

However, sources say, the PU drew up an agreement in which it required 
Malee to pay a $1 million as lump some payment for the lease, then 
oblige the company to pay a percentage of the profits from Dairy 
Corporation to the government, and also to pay a yearly rental fee to 
the government.

A highly placed source at State House said that when the President 
learnt of the requirements under the draft lease agreement, State 
House issued yet another directive to the PU to remove all the payment 
provisions of the draft.

Instead, the source said, State House directed that Malee should only 
pay $1 (one dollar) - a nominal fee - for Dairy Corporation, virtually 
handing the corporation to the Thai businessman on a silver platter.

People familiar with the transaction said that because of the State 
House directive, Malee will take Dairy Corporation from the PU even 
without presenting a business plan on what it intends to do with the 
corporation.

The only promise the Malee chairman has made is that he will, within 
one year of taking over the corporation, build a dairy plant in 
Mbarara from the profits he makes.

The Sunday Monitor has learnt that Malee chairman Boonyarat is not 
going to invest here as Malee but will float a company locally to take 
over Dairy Corporation.

Yes, there was a government directive to offer Dairy Corporation to 
Malee and the [privatisation] minister can answer all the other 
details, said PU Executive Director Michael Opagi.

Minister Kasenene confirmed on Friday the details outlined here save 
for the nominal fee. We have not yet agreed on the figure, so the one 
dollar price of Dairy Corporation is false. We shall negotiate with 
them on the figure.

However, sources close to State House maintained that the President's 
directive was clear: Malee should only be charged a nominal fee, which 
is usually one dollar.

Kasenene then amended his statement and instead said the President 
directed that PU should not ask for a prohibitive figure that will 
frustrate the investor.

However, when asked why the President not only disregarded the 
competitive bidding process but also issued a directive to PU that 
virtually arm-twists the unit to offer a state owned enterprise to a 
private foreign investor at a low price, Kasenene said: That is his 
prerogative and I cannot comment on it.

The PU recapitalised the Dairy Corporation at Shs2 billion toward the 
end of 2003 to improve its performance, but Kasenene said: In spite 
of recapitisation, the Dairy Corporation was still struggling and it 
needs more capital injection because the machines are old. We did not 
want to put more money into it, but instead sell it off. It is a 
strategic enterprise which if it collapsed, the farmers would suffer.

The Dairy Corporation was established in 1967 as a parastatal in the 
ministry of agriculture, animal industry and fisheries. In 1998, a new 
law was passed separating the commercial from the regulatory and 
development functions of the corporation.

The number of farmers selling milk to the corporation rose from 3,280 
in 1988 to more than 13,000 in 2002. In return the corporation paid 
farmers Shs3 billion in 2002 up from Shs105 million in 1988.

*  2005 The Monitor Publications. *

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  By Kintu Nyago 
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Late 
January marks two momentous events, at the international and local 
level that deserve our attention. The international event concerns 
the Allied forces overrunning Auschwitz, 60 years ago this week, in 
1945. Auschwitz was the largest of half a dozen or so Nazi Germany 
concentration camps. These were elaborate industrial complexes 
created for the sole purpose of extracting slave labour from Jews 
and Gypsies forcibly brought from all over Europe, before gassing 
them to death. 
All 
were based on the Nazi supremacist ideology of hatred which regarded 
Jews as sub humans that had to be killed off under their diabolic 
"Final Solution" policy. At Auschwitz alone at least one and a half 
million Jews, Gypsies, Soviet POWs, members of the Polish 
resistance, in addition to the mentally sick and People With 
Disabilities, regarded as undesirable by the Nazis were efficiently 
gassed to death, usually after starving them, while concurrently 
being subjected to extreme conditions of slave labour. 
After 
World War Two, the victorious Allied Forces formed the United 
Nations and resolved through the UN Charter et al, that never again 
should man ever subject fellow human beings to such devious cruelty, 
as had been the case under Hitler and his Nazi goons.
However, no sooner had the ink dried on the paper of these 
noble declarations, when again Cain grabbed Abel's throat! A 
situation, unfortunately quite commonplace in our own environment 
and broader surroundings of the Great Lakes and South Sudan, arose. 
Post colonial states have supervised the mass killings of probably 
up to 10 million people in the past thirty years, thirty years after 
Auschwitz! The world powers hypocrisy illustrated by their 
tolerating such wide scale destruction of life, is most probably 
explained by the fact that this tragedy has largely been located in 
the marginal former colonies and the South in general.
Although in Uganda accurate statistics may be difficult to 
come by, the regimes of Amin and Obote II most probably killed, in 
cold blood, up to 300,000 Ugandans through state- inspired violence. 
Which leads me to the second late January land mark, in this 
instance local, relating to the NRM's capturing state power in 1986, 
after Ugandans organised themselves against indiscriminate state 
violence. 
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Largely because the NRM came to power through the agency of a civil 
war. That is, a war between brothers and sisters, involving citizens 
taking up arms against each other. The war and the reality that led 
to it has been definitely interpreted differently, with the victors 
referring to their victory as liberation and the losers on the other 
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By Charles Onyango Obbo The curse of Jan. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31Jan 26, 2005




To hang on long enough for the crimes to recede in the distant past; for the evidence to decay; for the witnesses to the crimes to die; and long enough for the survivors and direct victims of the atrocities to become a minority.
The last two weeks of January have been dramatic days in Uganda and elsewhere in the world for almost the same reasons.On Monday January 24, a ceremony to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Liberation of Second World War Nazi concentration camp was held in the former Auschwitz death camp in Poland to mark its liberation by Soviet troops on Jan. 27, 1945. Between one million and 1.5 million prisoners - most of them Jews - perished in gas chambers or died of starvation and disease at Auschwitz. Overall, six million Jews were killed in the Nazi campaign. 





President Museveni greets senior officers at Kololo: Anniversary celebrations are painful to some people, but a cause of happiness for others who have benefitted from the reigning regime (File photo). 
In Uganda, on January 30, 1964, there was an army mutiny. When Defence minister Felix Onama went to sort things out, troops detained him, demanding a pay rise. On January 25, 1970, in an event that continues to shape Uganda's politics in many indirect ways, the commander of the Army's Second Infantry, Brig. Pierino Okoya, and his wife Anna, were shot dead at their home in Gulu. That murder of Okoya, viewed as a Democratic Party sympathiser, was to shape aspects of the Uganda National Liberation Front Army's conduct of the war against Yoweri Museveni's NRA rebels in Luwero in the early 1980s - and the second coup against Milton Obote in July 1985. The DP backed that coup, and several of its leaders were given ministerial positions. January 25, 1971, the army overthrew Obote, and Amin became president. On January 24, 1973 guerrillas arrested after the failed September 1972 invasion from Tanzania were executed by firing squad in several towns in Uganda. On January 31, 1977 one of the largest massacres of the Acholi and Langi communities by the Amin army begun in Gulu and Lira towns. On January 21, 1979, a force of the Tanzanian army together with Ugandan exiles, crosses the border and captures Mutukula in retaliation against Amin's invasion of Tanzania in October 1978. And so started the war that was to oust the Amin regime in April.On January 21, 1985, former President Yusuf Lule and Chairman of the National Resistance Movement died in London, opening the way for Museveni to become both the military and political leader of the organisation.On January 23, 1986, Museveni's NRA's rebels intensify their attacks on Kampala. On January 25 - the same day as the Amin coup and the murder of Okoya - the game is over. Military ruler Gen. Tito Okello flees to Kenya. And on January 26, the NRA announces it has captured power. January 29, guerrilla leader Museveni is sworn in as president, promising that the wanton killing of Ugandans was over. We can go on and onhowever, January 26-29, 1986 didn't mark the end of massacres of Uganda. It was the period that saw the shift of the killing fields back to northern Uganda, and later the western border with the ADF rebellion. Today, the north still bleeds. In one account, which I recorded many years later from a survivor of the January 31, 1977 pogroms in the north, I was told that Amin's soldiers went around collecting mothers who had breast-feeding babies. They ordered them to put the babies in mortars in which the people usually pounded groundnuts and simsim, and crush the children to pulp. The thing about this, is that it's what Kony's men and other criminal parties are still doing in the north today.I looked at the footage of the Jews in the Auschwitz concentration camp, and I couldn't help thinking of some of the grim images from the "protected camps" in the north. Violence and crime of this magnitude makes it difficult to heal, and distorts a country's politics and psychology in extreme ways.Recently I spoke to someone who had just toured Luwero. He told me he had spoken to people who had told him that the reason Luwero has never been fully rehabilitated by the government is precisely because of the suffering that the people there went through during the war. They believe it's possible some people in the NRA/M having seen how much pain the 

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Remarkable event: Peaceful 
votingPeace also has quietly and slowly gained the 
upper hand in many parts of Africa.By Laurie 
GoeringTribune foreign 
correspondentPublished January 16, 2005
JOHANNESBURG -- If you didn't hear much about the landmark 
elections in Mozambique and Namibia this past year, it's because they were 
remarkably unremarkable.In Namibia, President Sam Nujoma, who had led 
the country since independence from South Africa in 1990, agreed not to run 
again for office. His chosen successor, Hifikepunye Pohamba, won the November 
election with 77 percent of the vote in polling praised as peaceful and 
transparent.On the other coast of southern Africa, Mozambique's 
president, Joaquim Chissano, also decided to step down, after 18 years in 
office. Elections there were criticized for irregularities and low turnout. But 
former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's team of observers said the problems didn't 
alter the outcome, and Chissano's favorite, businessman Armando Guebuza, was 
elected Mozambique's new president by a 34-point margin.Africa remains 
better-known for its dictators than for free and fair elections. But across a 
growing portion of the continent, and particularly in southern Africa, democracy 
is deepening its foothold.Democracy and treatiesSouth 
Africa held quiet and fair presidential elections last year. So did Botswana and 
Ghana. Nujoma and Chissanoboth popular leadersdecided for the good of their 
countries and democracy to step down, bucking the long African trend of leaders 
clinging to power at any cost.Peace also has quietly and slowly been 
gaining the upper hand in many parts of Africa. The brutal conflict in Sudan's 
Darfur region dominated Africa's image internationally and has been a nightmare 
for the continent, with tens of thousands of lives lost. But a two-decade 
conflict between Khartoum and southern Sudan finally reached an apparent end 
this month with the signing of a long-awaited peace treaty.Uganda 
appears close to ending a nearly two-decade battle with the bloody rebel Lord's 
Resistance Army in the north. Long, ugly wars in Angola, Sierra Leone and 
Liberia are history, and even Congo appears relatively quiet despite fears of 
renewed conflict near the Rwandan border. An uneasy truce appears to be holding 
in Ivory Coast as well.What's changing in Africa? Part of the credit 
goes to African leaders such as South African President Thabo Mbeki and Nigerian 
President Olusegun Obasanjo, who have flown around the continent helping broker 
peace deals and uphold cease-fires.Both are proponents of NEPAD, the New 
Partnership for African Development, which promises greater African 
responsibility for solving the continent's problems, from war to corruption, in 
exchange for greater Western investment. They have a long way to go in 
convincing many African leaders that war and graft don't pay, and they have 
notably failed to put enough pressure on some major trouble spots, including 
Sudan and Zimbabwe. But African leaders at least are trying to find 
solutions.African nations, through the new African Uniona replacement 
for the failed Organization of African Unityalso are improving efforts to 
militarily solve their own problems. For years, West African peacekeepers have 
helped limit bloodshed in Liberia and other nations, and South African 
peacekeepers have kept an eye on problem spots such as Burundi. But the 
continent has often needed foreign peacekeepers to help in its worst conflicts, 
and they can be slow to arrive, a situation likely to worsen in coming years, 
particularly as overburdened U.S. troops remain tied up in Iraq and 
Afghanistan.Now African nations are jointly planning a continent-wide 
peacekeeping force, with contingents in each region that are capable of both 
quick-response and long-term monitoring of conflicts like those in Ivory Coast 
and Sudan.The force will take most of a decade to put in place. And 
whether African leaders, reluctant to interfere in the affairs of others, will 
ultimately have the political nerve to use the troops remains to be seen. The 
African Union so far has shown little willingness to ignore objections from 
Sudan's government and send large numbers of soldiers to Darfur. But in other 
regions African will for peace appears to be stiffening, particularly as the 
continent's leaders recognize the economic cost of continued 
conflict.All not rosyHuge problems remain in Africa, even 
as the desire for peace and democracy grows. Zimbabwe, which has disintegrated 
from a prosperous model nation to an economic and social disaster under 
President Robert Mugabe's misrule, remains the democratic outcast of southern 
Africa. Parliamentary elections planned for March are widely expected to be as 
stacked in Mugabe's favor as those that returned him to power in 2002, over the 
objections of most of the country's voters.But 

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Mary Karooro Okurut KEEN readers of this column 
know that every first Sunday of the year I make predictions of what 
we should expect to see on the political, social and economic scene 
in the next 365 days locally and globally. Most of these 
predictions have come to pass. But I am taking exception to my own 
rule this time round, to excuse myself from the predictions till 
next week or so. Reason is that my mind is still cloudy  no doubt 
due to a hectic festive season  and my seer powers have therefore 
taken a due break. Make no mistake though, they (powers) will be 
right back after this break. As I look back at what 2004 has 
been like, I will recall that one columnist whose name I do not care 
to mention was all over me. Her problem? I seem to be obsessed with 
President Yoweri Museveni and the Movement, and my writings were 
seldom on anything else. Now, now, now! Am I not the deputy 
spokesperson of the Movement? And is President Museveni not the 
chairman of the Movement? So what is surprising if my column is 
never far from the Movement and its chairman? The funny bit 
about this whole thing is that the one who is on my case cannot stop 
talking about Reform Agenda, PAFO and the, what is it called 
again...? ... Ah, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) or something 
like that. And she wont stop talking  or writing if you 
please  about Col. Kizza Besigye and some other names I cant 
recall just now. When was the last time you heard the pot calling 
the kettle black, or a frog making fun of the toads eyes? That 
aside, 2004 has been another excellent year for the Movement. It is 
still very strong on the ground in terms of structures and sheer 
numbers. Only the other day I saw ripples of excitement in 
some quarters when it was announced that the opposition parties  
the G6 as they call themselves  have agreed to field a single 
candidate for the 2006 presidential elections. The reading of these 
people is that the opposition now has a strong chance of beating the 
Movement to State House. I have asked before, but I will ask 
this again: what is new about this single candidate thing? Have they 
not always joined hands to fight President Museveni? For 
those of you who thrive on statistics and data, I will remind you 
that in 1996 they fielded Dr. Paul Ssemogerere of the Democratic 
Party. President Museveni beat him with 75% of the vote. 
Five years later in 2001 when they fielded Besigye, 
President Museveni had no trouble scooping 69% of the vote. What and 
where is the magic about the opposition this time round? There will 
be nothing like an election upset, I can assure you. The 
kisanja movement is well on course and you can be sure President 
Museveni, in accordance with the will and wishes of the people, will 
be given another term in law (Constitution), and this verdict will 
be confirmed with another strong electoral victory. Contrary 
to what some opposition leaders are trying to preach, the donor 
community is not opposed to lifting of term limits, or specifically, 
another term for President Museveni. All they want is that it all 
must be done according to the law. Talking of which, there has 
been some noise made about the inappropriateness of the motion in 
Parliament that seeks to kill off voting by secret ballot in the 
House on constitutional amendments. Protagonists of this 
motion want MPs to be seen voting for a particular side of an issue, 
in the open; instead of restricting their sentiments to a piece of 
paper that no one else will know about. Why should there be 
a secret ballot? People ought to stand up and be counted in crucial 
times as these. There should be no grey area and certainly no 
hiding. Anybody who is too ashamed or shy of their position to 
openly stand by it is not fit to be an MP. There are two 
other highlights of 2004. One is the music industry whose artistes I 
salute with passion. They have come out with beautiful, rich and 
symbolic songs. Kudos to the likes of Julianna Kanyomozi and Bobi 
Wine (Taata wa baana), Haruna Mubiru (Ekitooke), Jose 
Chameleone (Jamila), Sheila Nvannungi and many others who 
have made our music such a 

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By Ishbel Matheson BBC News, Darfur 
Fatma gently unwraps the bright, pink folds of her shawl, to reveal her baby girl. 





 
Darfuri women believe rape is being used as a weaponThe sickly, three-month-old child, named Hawa, is the result of terrible atrocity. 
When Arab militia, known as Janjaweed, came to Fatma's home in January, they threatened to kill her father. 
Fatma intervened but the gunmen turned on her. 
"They said to me: 'You are a prostitute'," she says. 
"They pinned me down, one on my hands and one on my legs. The others took turns." 
Fatma was held for four hours and raped repeatedly. 
They left her alive, but injured so badly, that she could not walk. 
When her family eventually found her, they had to carry her home. 
Marked for life 
Two months later, Fatma realised that she was pregnant. She is just 15 years old. 
"At first my father wanted to throw me out. But others pleaded with him." 
Her family moved to a refugee camp in the town of Kass, along with other survivors from her village. 







 They want to destroy everything - by violating us, they want to make our men ashamed and to demoralise them 

Hawa Seliman Mohammed, rape victim But in this traditional society, Fatma and her baby are marked for life. 
The young mum tells how neighbours whisper about her. 
"They say I'm a bad girl - that I had this Janjaweed baby. They say that I should be sent away," she says. 
As she speaks, baby Hawa frets and cries. She is malnourished and light as a feather. 
Her mother presses her to her breast, but she has no milk. 
We ask an older woman who is present, to try to help us soothe the baby. 
She refuses, cursing the child as if she were a bad omen. 
"She is calling the baby 'a dirty girl'," says Unicef's Eman el-Tigani. 
"Fatma has no future here. Islam does not allow for a baby to be killed. Otherwise this baby would be dead." 
Rape 'commonplace' 
Fatma and her baby are victims of a brutal scorched-earth campaign in this remote region in western Sudan. 





 More than two million people have been driven from their lands, in what the UN has called it the "worst humanitarian crisis in the world". 
Human rights groups say Arab militia backed by the Sudanese government are seizing the land from Africans in Darfur. 
The Sudanese government says it has been fighting a rebellion. It denies funding and arming the militia. 
Whatever the politics of the conflict, the crime of rape is disturbingly prevalent. 
Every day, aid workers hear reports of women and girls from African tribes being abducted and gang-raped. 
Shame amid love 
Fatma is not the only one to be bearing the baby of a enemy fighter. 
As she tells her story, other heavily pregnant women listen. 







 I will keep her - I want my baby 

Fatma,Mother of 'Janjaweed baby' Hawa Seliman Mohammed, 24, is due to deliver any day now. 
She was grabbed by the Janjaweed militia, while taking a shower on the outskirts of her besieged village. 
Like many victims, she believes rape is being used as a deliberate weapon in this war. 
"They want to destroy everything," she says. "By violating us, they want to make our men ashamed and to demoralise them." 
There is one report of a Darfuri woman who has tried to abandon her Janjaweed baby. 
But Fatma loves her child. She rocks her, murmuring her name. 
"I feel ashamed, because she is the child of a Janjaweed - and they are the ones who are carrying out this war against us. But I will keep her. I want my baby." 

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STANDARD/NAIROBI November 27, 2004 Africa’s failed states are moving to a new rhythmn Barrack Muluka It’s time Uganda’s president listened to the music and followed Moi and Nujoma out the door Karen Blixen, a regal lady after whom a whole estate in Nairobi’s suburbs has been named, once infamously wrote these words about Africa: "When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find that it is the same in all her music. What I learned from the game of the country, was useful to me in my dealings with the Native People." This lady, who owned a significant portion of what is Nairobi and Ngong today, was adept at equating the African to the wild animal. If ever there was any doubt about what she mean by the words " what I learned from the game of the country was useful in my dealings with the Native People," it is erased when we read 
about her cook in her book "Out of Africa". She says of Kamande — for that was his name — "He stuck to the maize cobs of his fathers. Here even his intelligence sometimes failed him, and he came and offered me a Kikuyu delicacy, — a roasted potato or a lump of sheep’s fat — even as a civilized dog that has lived for a long time with people, will place a bone on the floor before you as a present." And so, from this Nordic baroness we are told that the rhythm of our music is the same, whether we be human beings or beasts. So long as we are in Africa, we are all the same. And of course Blixen (or to use her proper name, Isak Denisen) said worse things about the African person, but never mind. Be that as it may, do some of us seem to sometimes behave in fashions that would suggest that Blixen and a whole train of others like her were right in their 
assessment? There used to be a certain one-man guitarist whose music I loved listening to in Nairobi. He sang mostly in Gikuyu. But I did not mind this at all. My smattering of Gikuyu indicated that he was singing about some young man in love. The young man was telling the object of his love that he would take her to her home, and do the necessary things that are done when a young man takes a young lady to her parents. The guitarist sang with emotion and passion. I thought the song was very romantic. But when I once said this to some buddies, they burst into wild laughter. "Romantic, did you say?" Indeed, for how could a song in Gikuyu ever be romantic? That was what my friends were telling me. In other words, romance is something that can only be experienced and expressed in a European language. Just as Kamande’s Gikuyu food seemed like a 
dog’s meal to Karen Blixen, our languages, when compared to English or French, are judged incapable of expressing romance. And so I have often been chastised when I hum away to a Luo tune or to a Kamba one. I am supposed to be backward, because of appreciating the Sounds of Nyamwari Jazz Band from the Gusii Highlands, or tapping away to the lyrics of the Kalenjin sisters. And yet this where I think that, her perversion aside, Ms. Blixen was right. Once the African rhythm is in you, then it carries you wherever it goes, regardless of whether it is the all-powerful Orchestra Kinshasa of the late Lwambo Lwanzo Makiadi, or Sukuma Bin Ong’aro and his Suku Jazz. Perhaps you don’t agree. But there is another kind of African rhythm that flies crisply and finds a meeting point, regardless of whether it comes from Mozambique or from Nigeria. Prof 
David Rubadiri most adroitly captures this rhythm when he says in the poem Another Song, "Yet another song, I have to sing. In the early wake of a colonial dusk I sang of fire." It is the song of the failed African state, which has traversed the continent from South to North and from East to West. In the words of another poet in the anthology "Echoes Across the Valley", this is the song of an old general who wore the slain foe’s shoes and became the new problem. In recent times, however, the tune seems to be changing again. In Malawi, we have been witness to the reluctant changing of tune by the late Dr. Kamuzu Banda, who eventually allowed Bakili Muluzi to have a go at the song. In Kenya, former President Moi eventually got tired of asking Kenyans to sing the same tune as he did and made way for the present dispensation. In Namibia, Sam Nujoma has 
recently picked up the rhythm from Moi and passed the political hymnbook to someone else. And in Mozambique Joachim Chisano is preparing to pass on the hymnbook. But is president Museveni of Uganda singing off-key? President Museveni is a great man, who has done great things for Uganda and for East Africa. It was Prof. Ali Mazrui who once described Milton Obote as "a great man who made great mistakes’. Is the great man in Kampala about to make a great mistake by pushing for a third term in office when the African song seems to have changed rhythm everywhere? The writer is Managing

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Lately, the hot environmental topics in Uganda and particularly Kampala
have centered on flooding and the Nakivubo Channel. Mayor Sebanna Kizito
in his December 9th 1999 address to members of NGOs blamed the government
for the flooding problem citing its policy of gazzeting lowland areas to
industrial developments. In reply, Y. Nkulabo in his 16th December
posting on Ugandanet wondered how such a governmental policy would cause
the famous Kampala flooding during the rainy seasons. Mwami Nkulabo
advocates for a program that will see the swamps in and around Kampala
drained with added drainage systems.

Kampala\'s valleys were homes to swamps and rivers like Nakivubo, Kitante,
Lubigi, and Nalukulongo but to name a few. This changed soon after
Dr.Cook discovered in 1903 that mosquitoes spread Malaria. He advocated
for the drainage of swamps and rivers all over British\'s colonial
territories. Hence, Kampala\'s once open slow flowing rivers (streams)
like Kitante, Lugogo, Mulago, Nakivubo, and Nsambya vanished giving way to
covered large pipes and open-air drainage channels. Nakivubo was the
largest project with all the other channels draining into it enroute to
Lake Victoria. This policy at that time seemed to solve Kampala\'s
mosquito and drainage problems.

On the other hand, Kampala City\'s urbanization program continued to expand
as more concrete, stone, brick and asphalt of pavement and buildings
capped its surface with a waterproof seal. This urban growth increment
meant stormwater runoffs increased in magnitude and destructiveness
(urbanization can increase the mean annual stormwater runoff by as much as
six times). Unable to penetrate the ground, the rain that falls on
unstable construction sites, roofs, streets and parking lots runs off the
surface in greater quantities, more rapidly than the same amount of rain
falling on the spongy surface of a natural field. The rapid stormwater
runoff flows into narrower, shallower floodplains, constricted by
buildings and clogged with sediment causing considerable amount of
flooding especially around Lugogo, Nsambya, and Mulago. It should be
noted that storm sewers transport water from one point to another; they do
not reduce or eliminate water, they merely change its location.
Traditional storm drainage practice protects local streets, buildings and
parking lots from flooding, while contributing to major flood damage
downstream. [Please note that for an urban storm drainage system to drain
water efficiently from roofs, streets, and sidewalks, the flood control
system must be continually augmented to prevent flooding in low lands of
Lugogo, Nsambya, and Mulago.]

Other effects of storm drainage systems apart from flood hazards are
increased water pollution and use. Typically, the storm drainage system
aggravates pollution by delivering slugs of sewage and runoff after storms
into Lake Victoria. Kampala draws it\'s water from Lake Victoria and must
contend with increased contamination. Since the ground, sealed by pavement
and drained by pipes, absorbs little water, the amount of water stored in
the ground, from which plants obtain their supply, is reduced. This
lowered groundwater is insufficient to sustain plants during dry spells.
No wonder, urban plants haven\'t been successful in Kampala streets.

Kampala can adopt a number of innovative approaches to its
flood/stormwater runoff problem by: 
- Redesigning the straight concrete-lined Nakivubo open-water channel into
a waterway with irregularly shaped edges and a gently sloped vegetated
bank. This is an opportunity to transform a rubble-strewn, filthy, open
channel lined by garbage and derelict land, into a landscaped park lined
with pedestrian and bikeways.
- Setting up bioswales. (Bioswales are created to capture runoff and hold
it until it permeates into the soil or evaporates into the air. The
bioswale is also seen as a creative means of controlling runoff, as it has
the potential to mitigate wetland loss, preserve open space, and improve
the aesthetics of Kampala. As such, the bioswale has hydrologic, chemical
and biological functions). 
- Designing the rooftops, parking lots, open spaces to store stormwater so
that it\'s gradually released into the ground.
- Preserving open spaces in the headwater areas for natural storage
capacity, thereby reducing flooding and the cost of storm drainage
systems.
- Identifying and designating undeveloped urban wetlands as parkland to
soak up and hold water in soil and plants
- Exploiting the aesthetic properties of water without wasting it

Floodwater storage and recreation are compatible in large open spaces
(urban parks

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ze him into a corner.Sources close to Bidandi told The Monitor that if he had attended the meeting in his capacity as second vice chairman, he would have presided over the selection of members of the disciplinary committee, who were being chosen to punish him and would therefore have been bound by the decision of the meeting. However, since Bidandi would have been outnumbered among the members of the interim executive committee who were supposed to select the disciplinary committee, the committee would have been overwhelmingly composed of those who would want to humiliate him.From this perspective, Bidandi resigned because he saw the clouds settling on his head. But there is another reason: last year, President Museveni sacked Bidandi f
 rom cabinet after the veteran politician took a strong stance against amending the constitution to remove term limits on the president otherwise called Ekiasanja.Bidandi’s subsequent criticisms of the way the Movement and President Museveni were running the country were construed by some as sour grapes over loss of his ministerial job. Sources say Bidandi resigned early to avoid the humiliating of being voted out of his job, and also of retaining the credibility to criticise the NRM without being accused to being disgruntled over dismissal.Bidandi yesterday told The Monitor that he will remain a “sort of back bencher within the NRM and also as a member of the interim executive committee.” Bidandi further said that by a resolution of the party, any member who is a promoter is automatically a member of the interim executive committee.Bidandi has been weary of the way things are being handled by the inner executive of the NRM. Regarding the Shs 5m bribe 
 NRM has been dishing out to members of parliament to buy their support for third term, Bidandi told a friend recently that “there is no way I can stand before people and say this money belongs to the NRM. That would be deceit. At no time did we as a party discuss this money.”Further, sources inside the NRM told The Monitor that during the party meeting last week on Monday, the Prime Minister, Prof. Apolo Nsibambi, told the president that members had been “talking about facilitation” for the third term.However, the source said Museveni was silent and did not answer the concern raised by his prime minister. “Poor Nsibambi,” the source said, “did not know that the money had already been arranged and was going to be distributed by a state minister close to the President using MPs whom he often uses to do the dirty work.”Although the state minister responsible for this scam is known, his name remains withheld for obvious reasons.
© 2004 The Monitor Publications

Bidandi letter in fullNov 5, 2004




3-Nov-04The Chairman,Interim Executive Committee,National Resistance Movement.
Your Excellency,I hereby submit my resignation from the office of Vice Chairman, I.E.C, with immediate effect. I have taken this painful decision after failing to reconcile myself with the approach Your Excellency and the group around you have opted for, in establishing the NRM as a political organsiation.Your Excellency seems to have opted for a voter mobilisation approach targeting Kisanja and 2006, and not the laying of a firm foundation for a political institution that will incarnate our Movement ideas and principles in perpetuity.Furthermore, the emphasis placed on money and the bragging over its impact in consolidating ‘Movement Support’ is already wreckinghavoc, not only amongst NRM leaders at the national level, but also amongst our cadres and supporters throughout the country.In fact the recent crude dishing of money to members of Parliament to consolidate their support for the White
  Paper in Parliament has not only compromised their integrity in society but also undermined the independence of our highest democratic institution, the Parliament.Mr. Chairman, I also submit that the resolution passed in the last meeting of the Interim Executive Committee of NRM binding every member to decisions taken by NEC at Kyankwanzi and the Movement Conference at the Conference Centre two years ago, was taken in error, outside the provisions of our Party Constitution. I therefore do not accept it.Two last points Your Excellency, I would like to make.The first one is that we must dissociate the National Resistance Movement from the money that was given to members of Parliament. At no time was this a subject of discussion by the Interim Executive Committee. Therefore it was not NRM money. If it was a cabinet decision, the government should own it. In fact thatcould explain why it was not administered at Kyadondo 10, by our treasurer.The secon
 d is an appeal to you Mr Chairman. Please do not allow the support for Kisanja to divide the NRM any further. There are very many of us who are avowed members of the NRM but who are opposed to amending the constitution for the sake of Kisanja. This is why, as I resign from the office of Vice Chairman, I remain a member 

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Banya\'s story has got holes in it - as predicted the suffering of Acoli people is 
multifaced and if ICC comes we might be shocked how the entire thing has been 
ochestrated- it is terrible.

..

http://www.ugandaobserver.com/today/features/spec/spec200409161.php

In 1998 I was taken away from being camp commandant. I became coordinator. They called 
me ambassador, and so I went to Juba to stay there. I had an office in Juba. My work 
now was to coordinate the Sudan government and the LRA. So there was an office, a 
liaison office in Juba.

I became a political coordinator until 2002, when the (Operation) Iron Fist came, I 
was there.


They now came together with Neo, the American lady, up to the camp. When this thing 
was read, Neo said, “Kony you are very right. This thing, we should start again. How 
can you do without LRA?” So the Arabs spoilt the peace talks.




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Yes test recieved

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 that sustained the war 
according to the government, the first wave of massacres, mass rapes and 
instability in Acholi was the work of FEDEMU (35 Batallion of NRA). However, 
FEDEMU claimed that those atrocities were committed by NRA-proper. They 
further insisted that those who committed the atrocities were carrying out 
Executive orders (See,Otunnu’s, The Path of Genocide).

When Dr. Kayira learnt of the atrocities, he instructed ex-FEDEMU soldiers 
to provide arms to the Acholi to defend themselves. Subsequently, Kayira and 
two other prominent Baganda were arrested.

Here are a few examples of some of the atrocities that forced people, who 
had accepted Museveni’s rule in Acholi, to rebel:
August 16, 1986: the 35th battalion killed 32 innocent people in Namukora. 
Over 100 homesteads were burnt down (See Amnesty International Report, 1986, 
1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992). August 18, 1986: the 13th battalion, 
stationed at Akilok, killed 18 unarmed civilians. Some of the civilians were 
burnt alive in their homes (See, also AI reports above).

September 20, 1986: the 7th battalion, stationed at Oryang, Labongo, killed 
22 unarmed civilians. Many men and women were also raped (see AI reports; 
reports by Acholi Parliamentary Group; Report of the Committee on Defence 
and Internal Affairs on The war in Northern Uganda).

April 1986: 55th batallion arrived at Purongo (Nwoya county) and seized 462 
heads of cattle from the farm of the late Erinayo Oryema (Inspector General 
of Police). Oryema’s widow, Janet, was forced to hand over farm (see report 
by Verona Fathers to AI)

April 1986: the same batallion took 600 boran cattle from the farm of Y.Y. 
Ongom of Agung. 8 farm workers were buried alive in a common pit (see 
various AI reports).

June 1986: 1,200 head of cattle were taken by NRA from the farm of Tosiya 
Otim of Luke clan, Odek county. His son Kitara and 20 farm workers were 
killed in cold blood (The government denied that it was involved in removing 
food and wealth/cattle. However, when human rights groups presented evidence 
to the contrary, the government accepted responsibility for its behaviour).
It was such acts which turned the people against the Museveni regime. This 
explains how Museveni ‘created’ Kony.

Why the war persists
President Museveni had this to say on the subject: “It is true that in the 
past army officers were doing business out of the suffering of the people of 
Acholi and they did not want it [the war] to end.” (New Vision, November, 
29, 1996).

When the international community exerted pressure on the regime to negotiate 
with the rebels, it reluctantly agreed. However, when then Minster for 
pacification of the North, Ms Betty Bigombe and Kony had reached a 
settlement, Museveni wrecked the deal by ordering the LRA to surrender 
within a week (See, New Vision, February 15, 1994). Museveni’s attitude 
toward negotiated settlements has not changed.

Does the view of one of the leading Ugandan journalists, Kevin Aliro, 
explain why some Ugandans are reluctant to see the genocide in Acholi? Here 
is what he observed: “I particularly understand the dilemma of some ordinary 
Ugandans who, after many years of torture and oppression, do not want to 
believe that the UPDF...could even dream of such atrocities against any 
Ugandan... Ugandans are victims of self-denial and its associated symptoms. 
In their subconscious... they know the UPDF, like previous armies, are 
capable of all and worse.”

Kevin further observed that: “I was like such Ugandans. There were times 
when I would never believe the UPDF would hurt a fly. I dismissed the Bur 
Coro incident (in which innocent human beings were buried and smoked in a 
pit) as an ‘isolated case of indiscipline.”

He concluded by reflecting on the conspiracy of silence about the genocide:
”Deep inside, we [journalists] were also afraid. Afraid of the known 
consequences of publishing anything that may be deemed by the powers that be 
as ‘damaging to the image’ of Museveni’s sacred cow, the NRA (now UPDF). 
Hundreds of other incidents came and went, most unreported (The Monitor, May 
18, 1999).

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Yes it it working.
The problem may be the lenght/size of the posts you are trying to do. 
The new system has a shorter limit than the old one.

Try breaking up a long post into two or three parts (part 1 / Part 2 /
Part 3) etc. and see if that works for you

Kiggs

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Ugandans held hostage in ministry
 
 
This is the first such incident in Uganda 
At least three Ugandan civil servants have been taken hostage in the water 
ministry in central Kampala. 
Eye-witnesses say that one or two armed people are holding them in an office. 

Heavily armed police and soldiers have surrounded the building, which is 
opposite parliament. The road has been closed and large crowds have gathered. 

It is not clear who the hostage-takers are, but an envelope was thrown out a 
second-floor window which may contain their demands. 

A senior government official told Reuters news agency that the hostage-takers 
oppose moves to amend the constitution to allow President Yoweri Museveni stand 
for re-election in 2006. 

We are in touch with them and that is part of the exercise which is going on, 
said Kampala regional police commander Benson Oyo-Nyeko. 

We want to resolve this matter in the most peaceful, amicable way. 

The BBC's Will Ross who is outside the building, says this is the first such 
incident that anyone can remember in Uganda. 

 


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Ear to The Ground: 

By Charles Onyango-Obbo M7 will scratch Bush and Blairs backs too Aug 18 , 2004




The Art of Catching Thieves: From Uganda to Kenya was the title of column I wrote in this page on July 28. 
We spoke about how, among other things, British High Commissioner to Kenya, Mr Edward Clay (who was also the UKs man in Uganda in the mid-1990s) set off a political earthquake he accused unnamed corrupt officials of behaving like gluttons and vomiting on the shoes of donors; and observers are asking why donors are hard on corruption in President Mwai Kibakis government, but arent putting equal pressure on Kampala, where some think corruption is higher. 
You only have half the story, an economist friend from Kampala wrote to tell me. He said it was mostly because Uganda had privatised most of the economic assets to foreign companies, and Kenya had a more controlled China-style approach to liberalisation. Usually when people make these arguments, they accuse Museveni of selling out to the west, and thats why he was their blue-eyed boy. 
However my friend is no radical. Hes very much a pro-free market man, and is doing very well the liberal environment of Ugandas economy. I knew he was not beating old anti-western ideological drums; only expressing a good businessmans common sense about how money is made and lost. His line is that Kenya has a relatively strong economy. Even if it doesnt not borrow money from the international donors - as happened during the rule of Moi - it will get by; it will not experience balance of payment problems that would affect the hard currency externalisation requirements by foreign investors. (Externalisation is converting money earned  or stolen by politicians - in a country into foreign exchange and sending it abroad).
Ugandas economy, however, isnt supported by enough revenue from both foreign and its own domestic sources. Thus our imports are more than three times our internal earnings.
Our tax revenues have remained low despite privatisation, so nearly 60 per cent of our recurrent budget is supported by foreign aid, as is nearly 100 percent of our development budget.
The most lucrative sectors and companies in Uganda have been privatised to foreign investors; banking and insurance, telecommunications (the mobile phone companies), beer and soft drinks, electricity, name it.
This affects donor pressure on the Kampala government in very specific ways. Assume there was a big mobile phone company called Uganda T-Mobile. It makes a profit of Shs 50bn in 2004. Uganda T-Mobile, rightly, sends the money to its shareholders when the exchange rate is Shs 2,000 to the US dollar. It buys and sends US$25m.
Assume next year the donors get into a quarrel with the Uganda government over corruption and suspend aid. As our wont have increased, the government will be forced to print to meet its obligations. This could cause the exchange rate to skyrocket to UShs 5,000 per dollar. 
This would be bad for the economy in general, because the value of local Ugandans salaries and savings would collapse. My friend John Kattos printing business will suffer, as he wouldnt afford to buy inputs. My economist buddy argues that if it was only John suffering, the donors wouldnt be bothered too much. But then there is Uganda T-Mobile. While the Shs 50bn profits it made in 2004 allowed it to send US$ 25m to its shareholders, if it makes Shs 50bn in profit in 2005 and the exchange rate is Shs 5,000, it will be able to buy and externalise only $10bn. 
Assume Uganda T-Mobile is a big company in, say, the USA. And the biggest banks and breweries in Uganda are British-owned. T-Mobile is a leading contributor to both the Republicans and Democrats, and has a lot of lobbying powers in Washington. So do the banks in London. They lobby George Bush and Tony Blair not to suspend aid to Uganda; and indeed to increase it. And, also, to tell their ambassadors in Kampala to shut up.
Even though they know that Uganda has over-borrowed, they ensure that it gets more loans for balancing the budget. This donor money for budget support is released into the commercial banking system. Very soon the dollar falls against the shilling, and newspapers are full of stories of how our currency is knocking the daylight out of the dollar. The exchange rate goes back to Shs 2,000 to the dollar. Thus in 2006, Uganda T-Mobile is able to again buy $25m with its Shs 50bn and send it to its shareholders abroad, not just the $10m it got in 2005 when the exchange rate was bad.
You can say then that while critics claim the donors give aid to Uganda in order to support Musevenis government, this scenario suggests that they do so to protect the earnings of the foreign companies from their countries, and to put money in the pockets of shareholders (who vote for them) back home. In other words aid is first and foremost a subsidy to western and Japanese companies in countries like Uganda. The fact that Museveni exploits it for politics 

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Interesting! Would you say?
I do not know the truth behind this story but it should make you think if you still believe that homosexuality is a choice. Why would somebody want to jeopardize everything by engaging or participating in activities which are frowned upon especially in a society where a lot of people are uninformed,intolerant or are outright ignorant and where there are no shortage of females particularly for tycoons?



Cops probe tycoon on homosexuality By Daniel K. Kalinaki Aug 11, 2004




KAMPALA  Police are investigating a senior SC Villa official over allegations that he had forceful homosexual relations with three young men.
The official, who is a wealthy property owner in the city, vehemently denies the allegations. These are just rumours that have been going around about me, the official, (name withheld for legal reasons,) told The Monitor by telephone on Monday.
They are just malicious rumours, he said. The stunning allegations made against the official date back to May 7, 2004, when he turned up at Old Kampala Police Station and recorded a statement in which he accused three young men of attacking him in his home in one of the city suburbs and vandalising his car.
The three men, whose names are being withheld, were arrested and taken to the police station where they recorded statements. In their statements, the men, who are all in their 20s, made counter allegations against the official, whom they accused of drugging and sodomising them.
In a statement The Monitor has seen, one of the men alleged the official had taken him to Speke Hotel in Kampala and bought him drinks.
He claimed he woke up at 5:00am and found himself in bed with the official in the latters home. He also claims that when he went to the toilet, he discovered that he had been sodomised and that the official apologised and gave him a Toyota Corolla FX car to make amends.
The two other men claim in their statements that they suffered a similar fate and were given Shs2 million and Shs3 million each to settle the matter.
Things fall apart
According to the statements, one of the three men pestered the official for the logbook of the car he had been given so that he could transfer it into his names.
At around this time, the three young men, who all work together in a music group, discovered that they had all been in contact with the official, and began haranguing him for the logbook.
They threatened to take the story to the press if he did not handover the logbook and sign a transfer form. To appease them, they stated, the tycoon took them on holiday to Nairobi and promised them an additional Shs10 million, on top of the logbook and signed transfer forms.
On returning, the promises were not met. The men raided the tycoons home and forced him to sign the transfer forms before vandalising his car.
One of the men wrote out a public warning, in Luganda, in which he accused the official of having homosexual relations with young men in the city by either drugging them or luring them with offers of cash.
The warning, a copy of which The Monitor has obtained, shows a photo of the official seated on a plastic chair and dressed in a tunic (kanzu). The author claims in the note that he stole the photograph from the tycoons home during an earlier visit.
The tycoon reacts
In a telephone interview with The Monitor on Monday, the official described the allegations as malicious but said he knew the three young men as friends.
All of this is malicious. I made a complaint to the police after these boys took away things from my home, including pocket money and a mobile phone and they were caught red-handed with them.
They were my friends and I had known them for five to six years. They had come to my home several times but then things disappeared on three different occasions, he said.
In a 2003 interview with The Monitor, an SC Villa official denied allegations that he was homosexual and had partners in SC Villas playing staff.
The tycoon has two children, but is not married. The Old Kampala Police Station Assistant Divisional CID Officer at the Station, Mr Bernard Kiirya-Sisye, declined to comment. The allegations against the official come after SC Villas former coach, Milutin Sredojevic quit the club prematurely last month, citing, among other reasons, the alleged harassment of club players by an unnamed club official

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This just gives the phrase 'missionary position' new
meaning.

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 18:37 UK  
 
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 Malawi clerics caught canoodling
 
 By Raphael Tenthani 
 BBC correspondent in Blantyre 
 
 
  
 The nun was allowed to put on her habit after being
 arrested
 A Catholic priest and nun have been convicted in
 Malawi for making love in an 
 airport car park. 
 The 43-year-old priest and 26-year-old nun were
 caught in the act in a 
 tinted saloon car parked at Lilongwe International
 Airport. 
 It was a bizarre spectacle, the public alerted
 airport police after noticing 
 the car shaking in a funny way, police spokesman
 Kelvin Maigwa told the BBC. 
 The pair received a suspended six-month jail
 sentence with hard labour. 
 Remorse 
 In a packed and giggling court-room, both the priest
 and the nun pleaded 
 guilty to the charge of indecent behaviour in a
 public place and disorderly 
 conduct. 
 The nun tearfully told the magistrate she regretted
 her brief lapse in 
 judgement, while the priest said that as a man of
 God he accepted Satan had tempted 
 him. 
  We thought they could be rushing for a plane... but
 they never got out of 
 the car 
 
 Taxi driver 
 Magistrate Arthur Mtalimanja accepted their pleas in
 mitigation, but 
 admonished them saying that as servants of God they
 were the last to be expected to 
 misbehave in public. 
 I therefore sentence you to six months imprisonment
 with hard labour, but I 
 will suspend it... because you have shown remorse,
 he said. 
 The two were first noticed at the airport by
 eyewitnesses as they parked the 
 car and wound up the tinted windows. 
 We thought they could be rushing for a plane that
 was about to take off but 
 we were surprised that they never got out of the
 car, said a taxi driver. 
 After being arrested, the nun was allowed to put on
 her habit, Mr Maigwa 
 said. 
 The priest was dressed in civilian clothes, he said.
 
 If the couple repeat the offence in the next 18
 months they will go to jail, 
 the magistrate said.
 




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If this is the case, then how safe is Ugandas' norther fronties - when Uganda cannot 
fight no more. I wonder if Garanga will forever keep the peace.

We are in big trouble - now that the congolese can beat up embassdors. Congo is 
boiling not yet are melting point  but they say it is Ugandas mistake!

Bwanika.

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Time running out in Sudan

Published July 30, 2004

While most of the world dithers and debates, the slaughter continues in the western 
Sudanese province of Darfur.

This week African Union monitors reported that on July 3 the Darfurian town of Suleia 
was attacked by government-supported militias that shackled villagers and burned them 
alive.

On the same day of the atrocities in Suleia, United Nations Secretary General Kofi 
Annan exacted a promise from the Sudanese government to rein in the killer Janjaweed 
militias and facilitate access of humanitarian aid to the estimated 1 million people 
forced into refugee camps and others displaced in Darfur.

Annan also convened a summit in Ghana on Thursday to seek African solutions to the 
various humanitarian crises in the continent, including the one in Sudan. Annan also 
made an urgent appeal to donor countries to increase their aid for humanitarian 
efforts in Darfur.

Sudan has issued defiant statements against international intervention.

Yet that is precisely what is needed--a series of steps by the world community to 
compel Sudan to abide by the Annan agreement, disarm the Janjaweed and prosecute its 
leaders.

There is not great reason to be optimistic that that will happen.

In the last week, the U.S. has proposed three UN resolutions to place sanctions and 
arms embargoes against Sudan. Russia and China, among other Security Council members, 
have balked at the threat of military or economic sanctions. Russia reportedly wants 
to protect its profitable sale of warplanes to Sudan, while China fears risking its 
access to Sudanese oil.

The latest resolution, presented Thursday, softens the language to a warning that 
Sudan would face unspecified measures if it does not follow the Annan plan within 30 
days. The European Union backs the U.S. initiative. But Russia and China, joined by 
Pakistan, want to give Sudan more time to comply.

More time for what? The 18-month conflict has killed 30,000 people, forced 1 million 
people into refugee camps and left 2.2 million others in dire need of food and medical 
attention.

Waiting only promises to deliver more death and misery. As the rainy season 
approaches, and it becomes more difficult to bring in humanitarian supplies, the death 
toll could reach 350,000, according to relief agencies.

Thus far, Sudan has not moved to comply with international demands to stop the killing 
in Darfur. The world must impose economic sanctions and an arms embargo, with the 
implicit threat that military intervention could be in the offing.

Military action against the largest country in Africa would be difficult. It would 
have to be an international effort, with African support. Indeed, Secretary of State 
Colin Powell has said such action is premature. But the makings are there for such an 
effort. Britain, Australia and New Zealand have said they'd be willing to contribute 
to a force to protect Darfurian refugees from the Janjaweed marauders. EU nations 
might be persuaded to participate. The African Union could increase the 300 troops it 
has deployed to protect its observers.

The situation in Darfur grows only more extreme. Without forceful international 
action, dreadful results seem certain.

 
 




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Time running out in SudanPublished July 30, 2004While most of the world dithers and debates, the slaughter continues in the western Sudanese province of Darfur.This week African Union monitors reported that on July 3 the Darfurian town of Suleia was attacked by government-supported militias that shackled villagers and burned them alive.On the same day of the atrocities in Suleia, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan exacted a promise from the Sudanese government to rein in the killer Janjaweed militias and facilitate access of humanitarian aid to the estimated 1 million people forced into refugee camps and others displaced in Darfur.Annan also convened a summit in Ghana on Thursday to seek "African solutions" to the various humanitarian crises in the continent, including the one in Sudan. Annan also made an urgent appeal to donor countries to increase their aid for humanitarian efforts in Darfur.Sudan has issued defiant statements against international intervention.Yet that is precisely what is needed--a series of steps by the world community to compel Sudan to abide by the Annan agreement, disarm the Janjaweed and prosecute its leaders.There is not great reason to be optimistic that that will happen.In the last week, the U.S. has proposed three UN resolutions to place sanctions and arms embargoes against Sudan. Russia and China, among other Security Council members, have balked at the threat of military or economic sanctions. Russia reportedly wants to protect its profitable sale of warplanes to Sudan, while China fears risking its access to Sudanese oil.The latest resolution, presented Thursday, softens the language to a warning that Sudan would face unspecified measures if it does not follow the Annan plan within 30 days. The European Union backs the U.S. initiative. But Russia and China, joined by Pakistan, want to give Sudan more time to comply.More time for what? The 18-month conflict has killed 30,000 people, forced 1 million people into refugee camps and left 2.2 million others in dire need of food and medical attention.Waiting only promises to deliver more death and misery. As the rainy season approaches, and it becomes more difficult to bring in humanitarian supplies, the death toll could reach 350,000, according to relief agencies.Thus far, Sudan has not moved to comply with international demands to stop the killing in Darfur. The world must impose economic sanctions and an arms embargo, with the implicit threat that military intervention could be in the offing.Military action against the largest country in Africa would be difficult. It would have to be an international effort, with African support. Indeed, Secretary of State Colin Powell has said such action is premature. But the makings are there for such an effort. Britain, Australia and New Zealand have said they'd be willing to contribute to a force to protect Darfurian refugees from the Janjaweed marauders. EU nations might be persuaded to participate. The African Union could increase the 300 troops it has deployed to protect its observers.The situation in Darfur grows only more extreme. Without forceful international action, dreadful results seem certain.
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Malawi clerics caught canoodling







By Raphael Tenthani BBC correspondent in Blantyre 




 
The nun was allowed to put on her habit after being arrestedA Catholic priest and nun have been convicted in Malawi for making love in an airport car park. 
The 43-year-old priest and 26-year-old nun were caught "in the act" in a tinted saloon car parked at Lilongwe International Airport. 
"It was a bizarre spectacle, the public alerted airport police after noticing the car shaking in a funny way," police spokesman Kelvin Maigwa told the BBC. 
The pair received a suspended six-month jail sentence with hard labour. 
Remorse 
In a packed and giggling court-room, both the priest and the nun pleaded guilty to the charge of indecent behaviour in a public place and disorderly conduct. 
The nun tearfully told the magistrate she regretted her brief lapse in judgement, while the priest said that as a man of God he accepted Satan had tempted him. 








 We thought they could be rushing for a plane... but they never got out of the car 

Taxi driver Magistrate Arthur Mtalimanja accepted their pleas in mitigation, but admonished them saying that as servants of God they were the last to be expected to misbehave in public. 
"I therefore sentence you to six months imprisonment with hard labour, but I will suspend it... because you have shown remorse," he said. 
The two were first noticed at the airport by eyewitnesses as they parked the car and wound up the tinted windows. 
"We thought they could be rushing for a plane that was about to take off but we were surprised that they never got out of the car," said a taxi driver. 
After being arrested, the nun was allowed to put on her habit, Mr Maigwa said. 
The priest was dressed in civilian clothes, he said. 
If the couple repeat the offence in the next 18 months they will go to jail, the magistrate said.

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On The Mark: 

With Alan Tacca On Mike Mukula’s Museveni, kisanja July 25, 2004




As regimes become long in the tooth, less accountable and more reckless, the spotlights gradually swing and focus on the ruler as a person for more intense public scrutiny.
The laws of African politics at this stage also dictate that a government functionary chooses between demonstrating total loyalty and suicide.It is always interesting to discover what attributes different people admire in their idols. It tells you something about the idols and also something about the admirers. So, in this circus where singing the wonders of the chief can bring untold benefits, the spectacle of the president’s men and women trying to outdo each other is a valuable window on their imaginative range, on their secret desires, and maybe on some of the things that make Museveni tick.
In “President inspired me’’ (Sunday Monitor, July 18), Hon. Mike Mukula, State Minister for Health and lord of the Arrow Boys militia, has given us such a glimpse. 
Before a gathering of company executives at his home, Mukula was painting a profile of courage, a show of which (nine years ago) inspired him to join politics. If not misquoted, he said:
“I remember when we crashed in Kidepo on September 27, 1995, the president was the first person to get out of the plane, squeezing himself out through an emergency window. He jumped on top of the others and in no time, was already out. If the plane was to explode, he would have survived.’’
Are you thinking of stepping-stones? Well, even I cannot think of a more strange reason for anyone joining politics. But then I am dim-witted.I see this plane crash-landing in the national park. The terrain is bush for big game. The plane is wobbling and bumping and shaking violently before coming to a halt. There are people nearer to the emergency window than Museveni. Either they are calmer or they don’t know the danger, or they are less athletic than him. And some may be in shock or otherwise injured. In the stampede, the son of Kaguta, a soldier, is not helping his co-passengers to evacuate. Acting on raw instinct, he tears from the mass of living people, jumping on top of those in the way to the window and scrambles out. 
“Bravo!’’ Mike would have us cry and join politics, even as he and his fellow passengers are presumably still inside the crippled plane. Before the military establishment this week stopped former bush war fighters from giving us stories of the “mustard seeds’’ they had also sown, we had seen school children being trapped and lured, en masse, into a war many must have had to be indoctrinated to understand.
The abuse of women was recorded; the pangs of hunger and other hardships had been endured; the death of comrades and vast numbers of peasants was witnessed. 
The hearts of the heroes left their imprints. Some went to exact vengeance. Some went because they were stranded between the passion and the fire of the combatants. Some went to fight for a package of ideals.
They were tales of intrigue, trust, loyalty, suspicion, daring and luck. And Museveni came out of it all, not only as first among the survivors and conquerors, but with a posture that made him pass as generally “fair’’ in the heart; although that reputation was apparently not enough to inspire Mike Mukula to join politics. 
Fairness is the easiest thing to understand, but it is also the easiest to miss out on. Long before European-styled education was introduced, our forefathers had codes of fairness that were understood by even the young and are still valid today. A team of evolutionary biologists working with primates has demonstrated the presence of a “sense of fairness’’ at the instinctual level, suggesting that we share this faculty with some of our fellow monkeys. 
Yet it is equally true that there are very educated people in our age that will toss all their scruples into the bin in pursuit of the spoils of power.A day after telling business bigwigs what a heroic thing it was to go through the emergency window ahead of all the other people in danger, the minister was in Rakai reminding Baganda agitating for federalism that the Movement government has eight cabinet ministers, the Speaker of Parliament, the Police chief and a bunch of other big people who hail from Buganda.
A great favour, so to speak. (See “Appreciate Movement, Mukula urges Baganda’’, The Monitor, July 20) It is the old Movement government disease, the cheap illusion that by patronizing a handful of men and women you have answered the socio-economic needs and spiritual aspirations of whole communities.
To a peasant in Singo, whose wife has died in labour because the nearest medical facility is thirty miles away, what help can come from a police chief whose juniors are busy chasing opposition politicians in Kampala, or a minister of Justice defiantly planning to spend 30 billion shillings on a useless referendum?
In pre-colonial Buganda, virtually every minister and 

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As of this morning in Kampala, another senior Police officer,
John Odwe is
said to have dismissed the earlier allegation that the late
Ayume's car was
hit by a trailer. Odwe spoke to the media and said that the late
Ayume's car
has been analysed and there is no sign of an impact from a
trailer. This is
a direct contradiction to what another senior Police officer,
Asumani
Mugenyi had said earlier when he stated that there was a trailer
involved.
May be this explains why the late Ayume's car is said to have
been towed to
a private garage first immediately following the accident
instead of towing
it directly to the Police yard.
The lizard

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In a recent newspaper article Killer M7 claimed not to be a killer of his enemies, here is a few that he killed in case he "kirrudi"
































I thought people said the guy is so heartless that he killed his girl friend in TZ. Re read his speeches, and he only talks of we have killed, or we are going to kill, or we will kill them. In his answer to Robin White, dictator M7 admitted to have killed.
In his letter of resignation from UPDF dated 21, June 2001 Lt. Col. Monde wrote: "Many revolutionaries who try to keep the revolution working according to its democratic values have ended up being killed in unexplainable circumstances, many have been sidelined and forced into destitution some have been subjected to detention, arbitrary arrest, physical and mental torutre.I will give a few examples of those revolutionaries. Those who were eliminated along the way during the bushstruggle of 1980 -86 include the following; note no single case that has ever been investigated or mentioned.

* Commander Fred Rubereza Nkuranga (RIP) was assasinated in a grenade attack in Nkrumah unit in 1981 by late Kato who was later killed by his own troops to hide evidence.
* Comrade Ahmad Seguya (RIP) the first overall commander of LRA was poisoned in 1981.
* Comrade Sam Magara (RIP) the second overall commander was clandestinely assasinated by Major John Mugiha (Air force) under the orderes of President Museveni.
* Comrade Shaban Kashanku was shot dead clandestinely in 1982 by the late Dumper.
* Comrade Doctor John Bwiriza was betrayed and shot dead clandestinely.
Comrade Mugabi was assasinated in 1982 by Mucunguzi, chief of Security in Revenue Authority today.
* The killings of students at Makerere University by Bahima Police targeting Northerners deliberately in 1991 when students Okello Onyango ansd Waswa Lule made a report on deputy IGG. The report was never made public.
* Comrade Mutebi Guwedeko was assasinated in 1982 by the late Mugabi Mulachi.
* Comrade Kagwathe Giant assasinated in 1982 in Kabalega zone.
* Comrade Sam Katabarwa assasinated clandestinely in 1983.
* ComradeCaptain Emmy Kyaruhanga assasinated in 1982.
* Comrade Kayira Lutakome killed by Salim Saleh and late Brig.Shef Ali. Where is thescotland yard report.
*Brig. Tadeo Kanyankole poisoned on Salim Saleh's orders.
* Lt Shalita killed on the orders of Brig. Jim Muhwezi.

Other suspects to have been poisonedare:Col. Patrict Lumumba (RIP), Major George Katabarwa, Lt. Col. Nathan Kyatuka, Lt. Col. Sserwanga Lwanga, Lt. Col. Kavuma, Lt. Col. Angello Okello, Lt. Col. Silver Odweyo former C.O. Military Police, poisoned in jail.Brigadier Smith Opon Achak was killed byMajor Owura who was awarded with heading the Anti-smuggling Unit. Lt. Col. Julius Aine (RIP) died of an arranged accident.Major Okello Kollo (RIP) was shot dead. Others killed include Lt. Makako, Captain Tito Abiriga, Lt. Apollo Ntwaza, Lt.Gideon Bumpengye, and Lt. Kanyima"

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Gook,

What does thismean: "Rang guthe agithi marapu!"? I didn't know you spoke Akarimojong!

vukoni
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In a recent newspaper article Killer M7 claimed not to be a killer of his enemies, here is a few
that he killed in case he "kirrudi"
































I thought people said the guy is so heartless that he killed his girl friend in TZ. Re
read his speeches, and he only talks of we have killed, or we are going to kill, or we will kill them. In his
answer to Robin White, dictator M7 admitted to have killed.
In his letter of resignation from UPDF dated 21, June 2001 Lt. Col. Monde wrote:
"Many revolutionaries who try to keep the revolution working according to its democratic values
have ended up being killed in unexplainable circumstances, many have been sidelined and forced into destitution
some have been subjected to detention, arbitrary arrest, physical and mental torutre.I will give a few
examples of those revolutionaries. Those who were eliminated along the way during the bushstruggle of
1980 -86 include the following; note no single case that has ever been investigated or
mentioned.

* Commander Fred Rubereza Nkuranga (RIP) was assasinated in a grenade attack
in Nkrumah unit in 1981 by late Kato who was later killed by his own troops to hide
evidence.
* Comrade Ahmad Seguya (RIP) the first overall commander of LRA was poisoned
in 1981.
* Comrade Sam Magara (RIP) the second overall commander was clandestinely
assasinated by Major John Mugiha (Air force) under the orderes of President
Museveni.
* Comrade Shaban Kashanku was shot dead clandestinely in 1982 by the late
Dumper.
* Comrade Doctor John Bwiriza was betrayed and shot dead
clandestinely.
Comrade Mugabi was assasinated in 1982 by Mucunguzi, chief of Security in
Revenue Authority today.
* The killings of students at Makerere University by Bahima Police targeting
Northerners deliberately in 1991 when students Okello Onyango ansd Waswa Lule made a report on deputy IGG. The
report was never made public.
* Comrade Mutebi Guwedeko was assasinated in 1982 by the late Mugabi
Mulachi.
* Comrade Kagwathe Giant assasinated in 1982 in Kabalega
zone.
* Comrade Sam Katabarwa assasinated clandestinely in 1983.
* ComradeCaptain Emmy Kyaruhanga assasinated in
1982.
* Comrade Kayira Lutakome killed by Salim Saleh and late Brig.Shef Ali. Where
is thescotland yard report.
*Brig. Tadeo Kanyankole poisoned on Salim Saleh's
orders.
* Lt Shalita killed on the orders of Brig. Jim
Muhwezi.

Other suspects to have been poisonedare:Col. Patrict Lumumba (RIP),
Major George Katabarwa, Lt. Col. Nathan Kyatuka, Lt. Col. Sserwanga Lwanga, Lt. Col. Kavuma, Lt. Col. Angello
Okello, Lt. Col. Silver Odweyo former C.O. Military Police, poisoned in jail.Brigadier Smith Opon Achak was
killed byMajor Owura who was awarded with heading the Anti-smuggling Unit. Lt. Col. Julius Aine (RIP)
died of an arranged accident.Major Okello Kollo (RIP) was shot dead. Others killed include Lt. Makako,
Captain Tito Abiriga, Lt. Apollo Ntwaza, Lt.Gideon Bumpengye, and Lt.
Kanyima"

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March 5, 2004
Posted to the web March 5, 2004
Justin Moro
Kampala
SEVEN Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, including a lieutenant, on Monday 
surrendered to the UPDF 509 Brigade in Pader district.

This brings to 37 the number of LRA fighters who have surrendered in 
February.

The rebels on Tuesday said they were forced out of the bush due to constant 
UPDF pressure on their hideouts.

They said UPDF helicopter gunship attacks on them killed and injured many 
rebels, who scattered to avoid the intensive attacks.

We were constantly attacked by the UPDF in all places we went. We didn't 
have time to either rest or cook.

So many rebels were killed and many more scattered in sick bays with 
serious injuries, the lieutenant said.

The fighters, together with 27 others (names withheld) were transported to 
Kampala to meet the President.

The UPDF 509 Brigade commander, Lt. Col. Paul L'Okech, said an LRA rebel 
group under Odhamba was under intensive fire.

We have rescued over 120 captives, 52 children and 34 child mothers from 
the rebels in the last month, L'Okech said.

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He paraded the former captives and the child mothers at the Brigade 
headquarters in Pader.

The UPDF recovered weapons including anti-aircraft guns, landmines, bombs 
and a solar panel.

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Museveni in the Shoes of LRA Victims



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OPINION
March 5, 2004
Posted to the web March 5, 2004
Onapito Ekomoloit
Kampala
HE is getting a lot of erroneous flak from arm chair critics, but he keeps 
on undeterred. From the safety of Kampala and other places outside the 
theatre of Joseph Kony's Lords Resistance Army (LRA) terrorism, it's 
fashionable these days to fault President Yoweri Museveni.

But as the English say, it's only the wearer who knows where the shoe hurts. 
When it comes to feeling the suffering Kony has caused to the people of 
Acholi, Lango and Teso, the president is truly in their shoes.

Like a brave man faced with a lion mauling his family, Museveni has neither 
broken down in despair nor cut and run, as some cowards like those heading 
the moribund Democratic Party (DP) recently advised him.

On the contrary, the president has stuck with the suffering people through 
thin and thin. Presently, he has camped in what one may call the middle of 
nowhere in Okwang sub-county - a spot 95km outside Lira town.

The LRA bandits have been trying to make this enclave of wilderness a safe 
haven, from where they spring to carry out massacres, such as the recent 
ones at Internally Displaced Peoples (IDP) camps at Abia and Ogur.

Earlier in 2002 and in the second half of last year the LRA tried similar 
schemes of creating safe havens in Gulu and Teso respectively. The 
president's personal camping in those areas to frustrate them-often 
criticized as interfering with army command-paid handsome dividends.

No wonder on his way to Okwang the president received a hero's welcome from 
IDP along the way. One only wishes the opinion of these suffering folks 
about the president's work was thought by those trashing it.

What matters though to President Museveni, in his own words to an Austrian 
television journalist recently, is that he is addicted to slaving for the 
people. His journey to Okwang, the availability of a helicopter not 
withstanding, told it all.

No amount of Kampala tears for the people the LRA has displaced from their 
homes would have touched them more than what the President did on this 
journey. His road travel from Soroti amounted to wiping the tears from the 
eyes of the people. While at Soroti State Lodge, he conferred with several 
groups of people ranging from local leaders to widows and appreciated 
first-hand the magnitude of the trauma the LRA left in the wake of its 
defeat in Teso.

The problems are enormous, both collective and individual. Those claiming 
that the President is squandering money should tell it to these wretched of 
the earth. Their personal dilemmas would melt a heart of steel. Here is just 
one scene: The President is explaining to a group how the Government will 
have to do something about secondary school fees because ID parents are too 
impoverished to afford. Suddenly, a widow is almost on her knees, tears 
welling in her eyes and voice trembling. Her daughter, with a year to go at 
Makerere University is being dropped for lack of fees.

Whatever the Government plans for parents like her will be too little too 
late. So she is pleading with the President to do something.

I leave it to you to decide what he should have told her.

When the President hit the road for Lira on February 23, it was midday. His 
first stop was Amuria township, home to some 37,000 IDP. With their own 
Arrow Boys and the UPDF having given the LRA a bloody nose, they were 
somehow home away from home. They could even afford to break into akogo and 
ajosi dances, inviting the President to join, to which he obliged - you 
should have seen his strokes!

Four o'clock in the afternoon found him at Obalanga IDP, where the excited 
area LC3 chairman declared a piece of history had been made. Without fear of 
contradiction, he said Yoweri Kaguta Museveni had become the first president 
since Uganda's independence to reach Obalanga. This was the first place the 
LRA attacked when it struck Katakwi last July. Aren't we reminded to count 
our true friends in time of sorrow?

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It was dusking when the presidential convoy snaked out of Orungo IDP, in 
also in Katakwi, the third the president visited on his way to Lira. And the 
clock was showing 10.00pm, by the time the convoy swept into Lira Hotel, for 
a night's rest.

In all, the president had done some 160 kms, over 10 hours, in a blinding 
cloud of dust. Nonetheless, it was worth, knowing that some 150,000 IDP must 
have slept better, having seen and heard from their President, not 
empty-handed, but with heavy armour for bette protected camps and a 
committed resettlement kit for them.

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